Word: meaninglessness
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...similar bricks and mortar of literature". Neither of these statements is any more worthy of serious comment than the "skillibooch . . . gmmk" of a baby-or the braying of an ass. Such noises speak for themselves-certain vibrations have issued forth from a cavity into the surrounding atmosphere causing a meaningless noise at which we must either laugh or hold our noses...
...impression conveyed by said article is one of a meaningless, evil-smelling chaos of ugly beasts, cruelly handled by ill-bred people...
National politics, except in the months of Presidential campaigns, seldom makes any dent upon Harvard undergraduate life. Even in the fall of 1924, the student's participation in the campaign consisted more in torchlight processions and belligerent and meaningless statements to the press that in cool consideration of the issues involved. One debate at the Union was the only serous event which brought any large attendance, and a number of speeches at the Liberal Club completed the educational side of the campaign...
...their lavish expenditures for him in Missouri become widely advertised. But in 1924, Mr. Lowden did what only one man ever did before. He refused to run for Vice President after actually being nominated.† There is an echo of this refusal in Mr. Lowden's otherwise rather meaningless campaign statement this year. Concerning his 1928 candidacy he has said: "I know of no man in all our history who has run away from the Presidency," and "No man is too big to refuse. . . the Republican nomination for President...
...letter to a Mrs. Samuel Bens of Manhattan, Senator Borah said: ". . . It is clear that both political parties propose to avoid anything in the way of a commitment to the upholding and maintaining of the Constitution of the United States, except perhaps an insipid, meaningless generality to the effect that they believe in law and order. They might just as well say they believe in the Ten Commandments...