Word: absurdity
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...Patten Inc. submitted to Mr. Woolley a contract for advertising. Said he: "I never sign contracts, but I agree to the terms." Van Patten Inc. claims that the contract, verbally agreed to, called for $60,000. Counsel for the Democrats claim that is absurd, as Mr. Woolley's total appropriation for all publicity was only...
...Absurd," said the genial John W. Davis. "I don't know what Mr. Van Patten is talking about," said the genial James W. Gerard. "If he [Van Patten] can, by a law suit, disclose the reasons why Davis and Bryan were not elected, it will be very interesting indeed and helpful in future campaigns," said Jesse H. Jones of Texas...
...housewives at their tubs and business men at their shaving. Before the echoes of the blatant dirge had been quite relegated to that mortuary of all songs - the monkey-organ - certain tenors were beginning to thud their chests in the press. To compare many with Caruso is, of course, absurd. But there are, in Manhattan, two Italian gentlemen striving for the place of "leading tenor of the Metropolitan." For several seasons, these two have vied with each other; and still some operagoers will emphatically murmur: "Giovanni Martinelli," others vulgarly shout: "Beniamino Gigli." Last week, in an advertisement for a concert...
...announcement on the first page of this issue will calm all anxiety. English 5 is to be continued, and conducted by the one man most capable to succeed Dean Briggs. It is, of course, nonsense to talk of Professor Copeland replacing Dean Briggs, just as it would be absurd to think of anyone replacing "Copey". Great men are never replaced. But a happy providence sometimes makes it possible that they succeed each other, and that providence has watched over English...
...absolutely required ... is only a species of legalized larceny. . . . The time is arriving when we can have further tax reduction, when, unless we wish to hamper the people in their right to earn a living, we must have tax reform. . . . This country believes in prosperity. It is absurd to suppose that it is envious of those who are already prosperous. . . . The result of economic dissipation to a nation is always moral decay...