Word: absurdity
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...Blum. He felt that with a little more obstruction he might force President Doumergue to ask him to form a cabinet. He announced that he would support M. Briand only if seven members of his faction were given practically all the important cabinet posts. M. Briand majestically refused so absurd a demand, refused to continue to form a cabinet at all, washed his hands publicly of the whole affair...
...editorial on Monday, November 30 is false. I certainly fail to see, in the academic relations between athletics and scholarship, that the last name has in any way come off second best. The statement that "the lusty infant (football)" has become stronger than its "parent" (the college), is absurd. It is well known that the scholastic requirements within the college itself, and the requirements towards entering college have been increased tremendously in the last six years. The so-called "President's" agreement between Harvard Yale and Princeton has been a further check on the feared ascendancy of football...
...college campus. That college athletics are beginning to does some of their glamor for the undergraduates (though not yet for the alumni) seems possible if for no other reason than that a change in fashion is about due a rising sense of boredom against so artificial and absurd and top heavy an institution. We note, for instance, an editorial in the Ohio State Candle for October in which college athletics receive a mereless keelhauling. The Nation...
...years ago sensation articles began to appear in your journal. Later came an outrageous attack upon the priests' convention (the Anglo-Catholic Congress) at Philadelphia. The articles were absurd, silly and malicious; they stopped short of libel...
...strict truth this Shubert concoction is a pretty flabby affair. This is not to deny it any merit whatever undeniably it has its moments, as for instance in the delightfully absurd Balloon dance, in the dancing of Tommy Healy and the mere appearances of Lucita Covera,--in the orchestral jazz and the far-famed "Living Palette" and "Living Statues", and in an occasional pleas- antly executed evolution of the chorus. But these bits of relief serve only to make the whole show spotty; they are by no means enough for its salvation...