Word: logically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fear his pursuers, they will never catch him. But though he does not fear, the audience fears mightlly for (not to mention the girl who of course is introduced into the piece in the approved romantic stlye) with all the blind fear of the hunted. And with admirable logic, A. J. is finally betrayed, not through any fear of his but by a "woman acorned". Raffles on the stage is no less lovable a villain than he was in "The Amateur Cracksman", and his impudent assurance in all manner of tight places gains tremendously from that vividness which...
Whatever reason there may be for the criticism of Dr. Doyle's argument, however, there seems no occasion for surprise that his logic is not always perfect. The author of Sherlock Holmes may or may not be right about the spirit world, but it is hard to understand why he should be generally rated as a master of scientific deduction because he invented a fictional character purporting to be such...
...never admitted the right of private property in the first place, cannot understand how anyone can find anything extreme or unreasonable in "expropriation". When the other members of the family of nations demur, and refuse to allow their citizens in Russia to suffer by this piece of Bolshevik logic, M. Kakowsky and his colleagues assume the attitude of injured innocence...
...modern finance. Its advisers are experts in their various lines of activity, and its members thoroughly awake to the importance of their decisions. Which, after all, is not so startling, because this is only as it should be. Any conference, to obtain progressive results, must maintain a sense of logic and balance...
...usually against their will--gets dragged into the newspapers, or else frequents places where money is sine qua non. The other sort nobody sees or hears of. And so Princeton becomes a sanitarium for weary week-enders and Harvard a millionaires' club. A chance for an Extension course in Logic...