Word: logic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidate Willis' turn last week to answer Senator Borah's questionnaire on Prohibition. The purpose of this questionnaire, which is to be passed to each Candidate, is to force a lever of logic with which Senator Borah may be able to pry the political lid off a subject in which citizens are actually interested. It contains three questions of a political nature (party plank, law enforcement, modification by states) and a fourth question aimed directly at the Candidates' liquor views. It was upon this fourth question that Candidate Willis, a boom-booming champion of the Anti-Saloon...
...whose hearts beat faster when any one mentions the White House. Down front is Ohio's ponderously handsome Willis. Across the aisle are ruddy Robinson of Arkansas and Missouri's smoldering Reed. Right next to Senator Borah is the thin-lipped Utopian from Nebraska, Senator Norris, whose devotion to Logic is only one or two brain-cell-power less than Senator Borah's. All these candidates were to receive the Borah questionnaire, and perhaps Vice President Dawes as well...
...Mexico! it disapproves of Prohibition in the United States. All these things bring it to the attention of American Protestants. But the open letters and Theological explanations intended to allay fear of the primacy of the Church over the temporal affairs of its communicants have made few converts. No logic can move the man who says flatly that he will not elect for his president one who has kissed the Pope's ring, even, it may be supposed, if the one in question is the greatest governor New York ever had. The stupid assertions about drinking that have been made...
Ostriches do not hide their heads to shield their bodies. That is an old fable, that learned Dr. Noyes surely knows. And for him to use the fable to belittle anti-evolutionists is foul logic. It embitters me altogether against scientists, who are always prating about their accuracy and fairmindedness...
...attitude of reputable news organs toward this concept of journalistic good business was summed up, last week, by the New York World with relentless logic...