Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stalin: Not in the least. Historical parallels are always risky. This one is senseless...
...Yorker (for the senseless and humorless scribblings by self-adjudged Artist Thurber...
...satisfaction it was proved that Major Kuga on Feb. 20 led a gallant assault on the no less gallant Chinese 19th Route Army, advancing with such vigor that his small Japanese detachment found itself presently engulfed by Chinese and was soon almost wiped out. Major Kuga, knocked senseless by the explosion of a hand grenade, did not even know his enemies had captured him until he woke up in a Chinese hospital. The Japanese courtmartial, when these facts had been established, complimented Major Kuga and dismissed him with all honor-but his hero's brain throbbed with the madding...
...what about Prohibition? [Here Mr. Smith took an ostentatious stoup of water while his audience whooped.] null actually spending $100,000,000 a year in a senseless, useless, fruitier attempt to enforce an unenforceable statute. Who says that? Why. the Wickersham Commission! [Loud laughter.] Think of the billions...
...Scouts, urged Scouts everywhere to destroy, as senseless and dangerous, any "chain letter" they may receive. Said he: "Letters I have received have threatened me with all sorts of disasters if I disobeyed their instructions. I have destroyed scores of them in my life but the disasters have never come...