Word: absurdity
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...right fore leg that morning. Twenty Grand, coupled in the betting with Surf Board and Anchors Aweigh, was the favorite. A. C. Bostwick's Mate, the Preakness winner, was second choice and the rest of the dozen starters were at lengthening odds to the field horses and one absurd long shot, Prince D'Amour, at more than...
...otherwise there was no connection between the two events. Derby Day at Yale, the day of the first big spring regatta, usually falls before Derby Day at Churchill Downs. It is a festival touched by ceremonious mania, causing juniors to add to the gaiety of fraternity houseparties the absurd and jovial dignity of top-hats, frock-coats and waistcoats with pearl buttons. Seniors rig themselves on Derby Day in the clownish regalia of sailors, goat-bearded farmers, raffish monks or intoxicated nuns. When, four years ago, this mood of conviviality caused an undergraduate to establish a bar in the bottom...
...Chicago Tribune), divorced last October from James Simpson Jr. who is the son of James Simpson of Marshall Field & Co.; and Peter Grimm,? Shanghai business man whom she met on shipboard while enroute to Tokyo from a hunting expedition in French Indo-China; in Tokyo, Japan. "It is absurd!" said Miss Patterson. "I never was alone with Grimm except for half an hour...
Those in authority will of course laugh. They will produce 67,453 reasons why it is impossible. The idea obviously is absurd. But often those of us who are older are too ready to overestimate our own capacity, assuming that years have brought us wisdom, and too ready to underestimate the capabilities of youth. There is nothing intricate about the running of college athletics. And if there is, there shouldn't be. For instance, I take exception to the belief that an undergraduate manager cannot procure tickets and hotel accommodations and arrange for the transportation of a football squad from...
...becomes involved himself in a labyrinth of purely artificial distinctions. It certainly is only a diseased sort of academic mind which could object violently to inclusions in the same structure of rooms in Gothic, Renaissance, and Colonial styles per se. Certain juxtapositions could be aesthetically bad. But it is absurd to suppose that decorations of the fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries are necessarily inharmonious...