Word: speciously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...specious plea of economy of light and heat can be advanced for these unreasonable closing hours; the expense for the required attendants for the few days necessary would be comparatively slight in itself. And with time and books at a premium during the examination period the opening of Boylston and the House libraries during the hours indicated would be of material assistance in lightening the burden of study at this crucial time...
...infer, judging from the response of Harvard's psychological department, that the investigation is, essentially of small scientific worth. That would be a specious inference. The refusal of the department to have anything to do with the affair is the explicable refusal of professionals who do not care to risk their reputations on an issue which they did not themselves open and define. The obiter dictum that the questionnaire is incompetent and unscientific may, from their point of view, be necessary in explanation; but it certainly leaves them open to attack on the grounds either that they did not recognize...
...provide for the needs of this new economic society. Plan it, regulate it in any direction but semi-public utilities, and you destroy its internal harmony, you set loose productive forces whose sole control comes in collapse. The end is chaos in any case; in the United States our specious boom is already aggravated by the disposition of banks and credit agencies to remain stagnant, Mr. Ford has a natural prejudice against the abolition of private ownership, a prejudice which any of us would entertain in his place. But this does not blind him to the folly of "planned capitalism...
...encumbered by Secretary Farley, who, although he served well by the free lavish of his trick for inflaming Rotarians last November is a mite too fast on the trigger for political comfort. The anti-Tammany democracy would have done more wisely if they had supported LaGuardia and forgotten the specious McKee, for the Major will be too heavily saddled with his colleagues to undertake any really unpleasant reforms, and would thus combine safety for Roosevelt with boon for the metropolis...
...First they procure a knowing minx (Sylvia Sidney) to take care of the faith-healer. Then they have a contortionist named "Froggy" (John Wray) drag himself about on his haunches and unwrap when the faith-healer looks at heaven. To their dismay, the faith-healer works other and less specious miracles. In the end, instead of absconding with moneys they have collected from his patients, they become converted. They decide to stay with the faith-healer and build him a chapel. Silly shot: Chester Morris making Sylvia Sidney wipe the make-up off her face so that she will look...