Word: absurdity
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Gloria Swanson and Ralph Forbes in the respective roles of Katherine and David succeed in making this rather absurd lovers' quarrel completely believable. Lynn Carter makes an attractive pick-up girl and injects a much-needed note of natural humor. Doubling in the role of author and actor, Harold Kennedy plays the faithful friend Tony as if the part had been written for him. Louise Valery, Lee Nugent, Allan Tower, Miranda Swanson and David Tyrell round out the cast. It should be said that Andrew Mack's set is probably the best of its kind that has been seen...
...Unswayed." Francis Biddle called the report "absurd." Then, after several hours' thought, he issued a statement attacking Pat McCarran's unwillingness to hear any witnesses...
...revolutionary overtones of a strange jumble of free-enterprise socialism, the proposal was calmly received in San Francisco and elsewhere in the U.S. Manhattan's Journal of Commerce merely pooh-poohed it as absurd...
...business" in U.S. fighter forces got out of bounds last week. The publicity-conscious Eighth Air Force made the whole business absurd by crediting a 23-year-old Mustang pilot, Captain Don Gentile (pronounced genteel) with 30 planes. Reason: seven of the planes had been shot up on the ground. Neither the R.A.F. nor any other Allied air force gives credit for grounded kills...
...strength of hostility to the U.S. did not excuse the State Department's successive fumbles, which in themselves have fanned that hostility by making the U.S. alternately absurd and offensive in Argentine eyes. But, in Argentina and elsewhere, this current of national pride did complicate the U.S. problem, make it a tough one for the ablest diplomats to solve...