Word: captious
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...write a "Dear Editor" letter, to those who constantly write them, this cartoon by Webster seemed pat! In case you have not seen it (though as it is copied* from the New York World the chances are you have)-it seemed to me to fit so many of the captious readers you apparently have (and are not alone in this). Do most people read for the pleasure of being critical and not for the absorbing interest of the knowledge gained? From one who admires the magazine's style and learns much. MADALEN DINGLEY LEETCH...
...sturdy atmosphere of rugged amateurism. Absolutely no mention of financial award to the winner has been mentioned in the official announcements and one may as well assume that the participants will engage merely out of love for free competition and the clean hard joy of listening to Helen Kane. Captious persons may always point to the promoters of such schemes as the real profiteers, but it is to be hoped that no such stigma should be attached to a firm which has done so much for appreciation of music in and around Harvard Square...
...ordinary run of jokes fails to amuse. But this time he had gripped, he thought, a Constitutional jest, the cream of which would taste sour in the mouths of the Wets. All a-chuckle, he was not hesitant in sharing it with the world. Rhode Island had raised a captious question on the 18th Amendment's ratification. Senator Borah judicially pronounced it "utterly unsound" and then continued...
Despite the faults which captious critics have discovered in his writings, the fame of Author Hardy has never wavered or grown thin. While other authors have been hailed, forgotten, rediscovered, his honor has had a steady, splendid growth. Perhaps there is a rocky artifice in his style, a misfit melodrama in the way he arranges a thunderstorm to enlarge the climax of every tragedy, a false fatality in the coincidence that so often generates his plots. But these faults are rooted in deeper virtues: an intense sincerity, unconcerned with merely literary effects, a profound, pitying pessimism, a relentless humanism that...
...that should make the wallets of exhibitors swell with good feeling. And Premier Mussolini is hardly likely to protest in favor of the newly accused culprits. The B'nai Brith magazine praises the "fine sensitiveness of the leaders" in passing such an edict. Only the captious will recall the coincidence that the majority of these leaders are themselves of faintly Hebraic name and appearance. As formulated by Will Hays, the edict in question was, "that no pictures be issued that could offend the Jew or cause the thoughtless to point the finger of scorn...