Word: absurdity
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...antic mechanicals of the Saddlers' Trade Union met and reinstalled Friedrich Ebert as a member of their fraternity. It mattered not to them that Germany's first President is long since dead (TIME, March 9, 1925). Still less were they mindful of his exceedingly pat remark: "It is as absurd to call me 'the Saddlemaker-President' as to call a great commander 'Sergeant-Fieldmarshal' because he once held the lower rank...
...Benjamin M. Day, by profession a downtown lawyer, by inclination a onetime president of the Young Men's Republican Club. Said Major Curran: "Ben Day is an honest, able fellow!" Lawyer Day said that, as he had never made a special study of immigration matters, "it would be absurd for me to discuss plans...
...hypothetical case of inherited prowess, this would be absurd. As an actual occurrence, therefore, it is interesting...
...absurd to say that the manufacture of war toys is on the decline. You have only to walk along the streets to find children playing with them. A pistol is the worst of all war toys, because it teaches the child the idea of killing by his own hands. Ask any child in the street what he is going to do with his pistol, and he says 'I'm going to kill you.' Other pernicious forms of war toys are the trench games that teach children how to send troops over the top in mass formation...
...pivot, Mrs. Craig, is the familiar type of woman who worships meticulously at the shrine of her Lares and Penotes. These household gods are her all, and it follows that she spends at least a third of her rather selfish life in preserving the domestic perfection of every absurd detail. The author, by taking a small, self-centered soul and depicting its fussy quirks with well-seasoned finesse, has converted her into an entertaining dramatic study...