Word: argumentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hostesses in The Idle Hour Cafe talk with point and guste; they know that life is life. The heroine knows it too, but she has the old hourgeois respectability on her mind, and keeps pretty stiff-backed. Young "Dynamite," the aggressor, tries all manner of persuasions, from the argument that "you haven't lived till you've lived" to the simpler muscular method. And despite his inordinate skill, it takes just two acts (out of two) for the lady to make up her mind. Your cousin from out West would call it "pretty raw," but it really is just...
Such a system should at least be worth trying. It is open to considerable argument whether from a strictly curricular standpoint most undergraduates would gain thereby. On its social aspect, however, the plan has a certain appeal. Each college might act as an antidote for the more unfortunate features of the other. A better balanced product might very possibly result...
Senator Thomas and the monetary diehards are having it back and forth with a fine gusto about whether the Treasury shall reap the four billion or so of reward if the dollar is devalued. The best argument that the outraged sound money men seem able to muster is the moral one that no government should appropriate something for nothing in this cavalier fashion. Whereas Senator Thomas and the rest fight for devaluation and confiscation of the gold profit as if the four billion dollars were essential to the financing of the recovery program...
...detailed criticism of the Montevideo conference, happily free of the old saws and penetrating on the real extent of the concept of good will. There is a salve, in story form, on the installment buying system by William Trufant Foster; and a very, very conventional restatement of the silver argument, this time called "Honest Inflation," by one Edward Tuck. The most valuable contribution to Scribners comes from V. F. Calverton. Mr. Calverton is concerned with a sane revaluation of Thomas Paine, and he shows that among the many ironies of Paine's life, the most bitter was his persecution...
...many years one of my most pleasant experiences has been the reading of TIME. ... In the past if anyone ever said to me in defense of an argument that they read it in TIME that settled the argument for me. However I must admit that in this last year at various times I have been surprised at articles that made me wonder if the good old TIME was operating in its usual unbiased manner. I received this week's magazine today, and I am completely disillusioned. I will not go into the details of the sneering article that appeared...