Word: hominem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoke ad hominem and hoped the rest...
...Anglais, buttered on the right side. But U. S. readers who like whole-wheat will raise an eyebrow at the very first slice: "In every English-speaking country Dickens is still the great popular writer." André ' whole case for Dickens is an argumentum ad hominem. Perhaps Dickens had a streak of Pecksniff in his character but, asks Maurois, "Who hasn't?" He is sorry for Mrs. Dickens, believes that "to be a novelist's wife is truly dreadful," but thinks much should be left unsaid on both sides. As to Dickens' solacing himself with...
...Yale east their votes for co-education. It was not that Harkness Gothic is more erotic than Harkness Georgian. Rather, the Northampton girls thought up an irresistible "argumentum ad hominem": "Both men and women would be happier; and when you are happy, you can work better." And play better. For reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and Saturday night an enlightened man. Indeed, the girls of Smith would associate themselves with the goal of every true college man, the pursuit of the "durable satisfactions of life...