Word: absurdity
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Babies' Hands. In his memoirs Signor Francisco Nitti, the Italian Prime Minister (1918-20) now declares: "During the War France, in common with other Allies, including our own Government in Italy, circulated the most absurd inventions to arouse the fighting spirit of our people. The cruelties attributed to the Germans were such as to curdle our blood. We heard the story of poor little Belgian children whose hands were cut off by the Huns. After the War a rich American, who was deeply touched by the French propaganda, sent an emissary to Belgium with the intention of providing a livelihood...
...attempt of John of Leyden to overturn the State, were known to everyone. Just so today many good people see a necessary connection between denying infant baptism and destroying the basis of society. Of course the assumption that Henry Dunster would follow after John of Leyden was just as absurd as the assumption held by many loyal Harvard graduates, that liberal professors were in league with Moscow...
...these little points Editor Renaud was sharp in retort. "It's absurd to think I have any religious prejudice. I have none. I was bred a Unitarian, but belong to no church. As for the Germans, yes, during the war I was against Germany. I was a loyal American. But since then I've held no animus. And I did vote for Hoover. But if Mr. Pulitzer were hiring a managing editor on account of his vote, I expect he wouldn't have hired...
...plays-"their brevity flatters my inability to sustain a long flight, and the inertia that barely permits me to write at all. And finally when I became a teacher, here was the length that could be compassed after the lights of the House were out and the sheaf of absurd French exercises indignantly marked with red crayon...
Operettas, of course, are all absurd and The Red Robe, adapted from Stanley Weyman's novel, is no exception. Yet it made a good play 25 years ago, in which William Faversham starred, and now it makes a gay and gaudy minstrel show for Walter Woolf. In the story of Gil de Berault, who was sentenced to death for duelling and paroled by Cardinal Richelieu in time to achieve fortune and a beautiful partner for the final curtain, there is proper material for brocaded dresses, sword play, romantic songs and fustian foolery. All this has been contributed. Helen Gilliland...