Word: absurdity
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...Jolson is the most valuable entertainer in the world. It is established that he, more than any living man or woman, can summon the audience to the palm of his white-gloved hand and hold it there. To his enemies-and he has a few-these statements will seem absurd. Survey of the reception he received in Big Boy guarantees them none the less...
...absurd for New York City to retain a school calendar devised for the purpose of releasing big boys from rural school for haying and harvesting. It is absurd for healthy children in high school to have a ten weeks' summer vacation, with weeks off at Christmas and Easter, when their hard-worked fathers, who pay for it all, get little or none...
...absurd and humiliating that American children of equal intelligence lag two years behind their more favored contemporaries in the better class of European schools...
...mean," he continued, "this absurd fashion of dismissing anybody you don't like with the words, 'Oh, he's a non-nordic.' During the war people became accustomed to the conscription of thought, and to intolerance of free discussion. That intolerance has continued through the years of peace following...
While it is absurd to expect the university to continue to operate the dining hall at a loss of $25,000 a year, undergraduates are not yet ready to accept its closing as ending for all time the possibility of having a common university dining room. Because Memorial Hall has failed does not prove the impossibility of another project better adapted to the needs of the students...