Word: speciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years European economists have remained quietly sure that sooner or later President Roosevelt would eat some of the words with which in 1933 he wrecked the World Economic Conference, cabling to London: "The world will not long be lulled by the specious fallacy of achieving a temporary and probably an artificial stability in foreign exchange on the part of a few large countries only." Last week U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., British Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain and French Finance Minister Vincent Auriol got together by transatlantic and trans-Channel telephone and apparently achieved...
FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE-Margery Allingham - Double day, Doran ($2). Author Allingham's characters are conventional murder-story puppets but by skillful pace, dialog, detail, she makes a commonplace theme into a specious and entertaining yarn...
Grounds were highly specious. The Republic's constitution allows the President to dissolve two Parliaments, the second dissolution being subject to review by the third Parliament. If the Cortes decides that the second dissolution was "unnecessary," the President must resign. The Leftists counted as No. 1 President Zamora's routine dissolution of the Republic's constituent assembly (not strictly a Parliament), as No. 2 last January's dissolution of the Cortes...
Suddenly appearing on the scene one morning in the company of his bodyguard, a burly pugilist of no mean accomplishment, he confronted Miss Piscopo with several incoherent requests coupled with specious offers of bottled beverages. Bewildered by the curious situation, she referred him to the News Office...
...stories form the chief mental diet of many a respectable citizen, even the most avid consumers are apt to be apologetic or defiant about their appetite. But they would not admit that detectification is the lowest form of writing. They would point out that the ability to concoct a specious and readable thriller demands more ingenuity and special training than many a novelist can command. And they would further contend that the best murder stories can compete with novels on their own ground. Partisans might instance the tales of Foe, Wilkie Collins and Gaboriau, would certainly mention Dashiell Hammett, "Francis...