Word: absurdity
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Ohio's William A. Julian: John J. Raskob reminds me of the man who rushes into your home and in the presence of your wife, asks "What were you saying to that pretty stenographer I saw you talking to at noon?" . . . The whole thing is absurd. . . . North and South will never become reconciled on the liquor question...
...chairman, declared that $289,050,019 of the Board's $500,000,000 revolving fund was out on amply secured loans to co-operatives and "a large part, if not all, the money loaned will be returned to the Treasury." Oregon's Senator McNary, declaring Senator Reed's proposal "absurd," harked back to the Board's fundamental purpose...
High powered slogans were coined by the presslords and plastered up, one so lyrically absurd that it soon sifted into London music-hall patter. Slogan...
...First Baron Howard of Penrith, sailed to rejoin her fiance, Signer Fiorbanti del Agnese, onetime butler at the British Embassy in Washington. Last summer her father sternly and conclusively told London reporters that any engagement between her and well-born but indigent Signer Fiorbanti del Agnese was "impossible and absurd...
...idea that any "motherly soul" can show a varsity boat a few pointers on rowing, there may be a minimum of truth in it; but in actual practice it is absurd. If anybody can ride in the proposed coaching-excursion boats, who will there be left to fill the observation cars at New London? Peanut galleries are all right in their proper place, but there is a limit...