Word: absurdity
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...court findings, that Rector Velasco had broken his "plighted and written pledge," that it would be impossible for a bishop to recognize such a man in his diocese, Bishop Abbott last week went to a meeting in Christ Church Cathedral, Lexington; characterized the sentence of a reprimand as "absurd." Then he astounded his colleagues by resigning his Bishopric. Afterwards he donned knickers and an eyeshade, sought the quiet golf links. Said he: "So far as I am concerned, the Roman Catholic issue made no difference. . . . It was merely a question of the honor and integrity of an ordained priest...
...York's Democratic Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt last week placed a whacking veto, resounding with such adjectives as "absurd," "unjust," "impracticable," upon a prime Republican power bill. The bill dealt with a state policy of valuation of utility properties for rate-fixing purposes. Governor Roosevelt stoutly reiterated the Democratic tenet, voiced clearly before now by such Democrats as Alfred Emanuel Smith and Owen D. Young, that the rate-fixing basis should be actual cost of plants and not the replacement cost thereof...
...surprising that the Washington authorities should even want to discourage such liberal movements as socialism or communism, whatever their opinion of the intrinsic value of such movements may be. It is absurd, however, for them to attempt a deliberate suppression of liberal groups. Their action shows a lack of understanding and sympathy with the human being which does not do Washington much credit...
...abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen-a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin Clive, who has the part in the stage Journey's End in London; the rest of the excellent cast was recruited in Hollywood. Last shot: the scene darker, the shelling outside harder, the only sign of life in the dugout...
...abstract presence of a power bent on destroying them, and which does in the end destroy them. These soldiers are heroic, but with a kind of heroism never before depicted on the screen?a makeshift heroism, concocted in despair as the best way to behave in circumstances which are absurd, insane, horrible. Captain Stanhope is played by Colin Clive, who has the part in the stage Journey's End in London; the rest of the excellent cast was recruited in Hollywood. Last shot: the scene darker, the shelling outside harder, the only sign of life in the dugout a guttering...