Word: speciousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Erskine's dialog which can be so easily minimized by an understanding of his easy tricks remain as insidious as ever; and now as he points out once more the original sophistication of woman and the enduring naiveté of the male, he can be called shallow or specious, but he cannot be called dull...
Auxiliaries. General Pershing addressed the American Legion Auxiliary (wives, mothers, sisters): "The enemy within our gates is at this very moment making serious efforts to find lodgement for his specious reasoning in the tender and emotional nature of our good women...
...slide trombones?* So conceives James Weldon Johnson, poet and social worker among his fellow Negroes. He has let his memory doze back for the main themes of sermons he heard as a little boy. His intellectual faculty has played over the themes, spun them into folk poems without specious aid of dialect or ungrammatical rhetoric...
Will you permit an old alumnus of the college and a graduate of the Law School, to express his admiration for the able article in which Professor Wigmore, an eminent graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, analyzes the specious and ex-party presentation of the Sacco-Vanzetti case that appeared recently in the Atlantic Monthly...
...numbers. It is a method to which business harmony demands a partial but not a rigid conformity. Again, it is possible to select the volumes for review from among the most widely advertised books of the month. A college public, however, would be the first to realize this a specious device. On the other hand, it can be assumed that the student is interested chiefly in a single type of writing, say fiction, verse, or political discussion or that he is of a characteristic turn of mind and will find anything philosophical or else colorful or perhaps sententious, eminently...