Word: logic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future punishment. An atheist is therefore considered more likely to be a liar than a man who believes in God. In two states, Arkansas and Maryland, there are provisions by which an atheist's testimony is non-negotiable in court; any court would be likely to recognize the logic behind the theory or to be swayed by the prejudice which exists in the minds of God-fearers against those who are infidels. Thus Mrs. Marshall prepared last week an appeal to the Supreme Court based upon the probable falsity of her husband's oath...
...Majesty's Prime Minister in Australia is brisk, kinetic, remorselessly logical Stanley Melbourne Bruce-a statesman as different as possible from His Majesty's Prime Minister in Great Britain, kindly, honest, incurably emotional Stanley Baldwin. The hobby of beloved Prime Minister Baldwin is keeping pigs, prime pigs, prize pigs. The daily sport of popular Prime Minister Bruce is to hop from home to office by private airplane, hop back, and thus stable his winged mount in the cellar of his residence. Last week Pigfancier Baldwin and Planefancier Bruce became thoroughly vexed with one another over the vital problem...
Fascist Mussolini seemingly did not conceive that his ardent words could give offense; but Anti-Fascist Birkenhead, conscious that his icy logic must have offended, threw a concluding sop to women: "Though a woman may not take a revealed part in the conduct of affairs, we need not fall into the error of supposing that she has no influence in deciding them. ... I can make my meaning more easily understood by repeating a remark made by the Duchess of Burgundy to Madame de Maintenon. 'Do you know,' she said, 'why the queens of England have ruled...
...logic" of the Robinson nomination was, of course: that he is Dry, Methodist, Southern; that he matches Nominee Curtis for attracting the farm vote; that his nomination was endorsed by most Democratic Senators, potent in their home territories; that his warm, rugged personality and impressive party record bolster the ticket...
...forge a majority pledged to support him, he might carry on with a "Cabinet of Personages," that is to say, a government composed of distinguished party men whose parties would probably support them but would not be pledged to do so? as is the usual custom. Concluding with wily logic, Dr. Gustav Stresemann observed that, "This Cabinet formation coincides with the spirit of the German Constitution, which recognizes only the personal responsibility of Ministers and not the responsibility of parliamentary factions...