Word: speciousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spite of all temptations to take his tongue out of his cheek and go up higher, Author Stong remains at the top of his heap, lustily cock-a-doodling. At 36 he is president of the Authors Club. His latest novel. Career, pleased his friends, fooled nobody. A specious, shrewdly contrived melodrama of Iowa small-town life, Career rang all the approved changes on the old tune of the unconsidered village wise man, the turkey-gobbler-villain banker, the solid youth who will go far, and the girl with bad blood who has come far enough. It was in orchestrating...
...Blaines if she had really wanted him, but she was too much a chip of the old block to try domesticating a wanderer. Gus's evening found him unchanged as ever, hardened irrevocably in his ways. A grandfather now, with his children leaving home for the specious advantages of town, foreigners and automobiles invading his old-fashioned peace and wont, Gus was rightly reputed richest man in the countryside, but it never affected his clothes or his habits. He still worked hard, took his butter and eggs to market himself, pulled his own teeth...
...Luxe (by Louis Bromfield & John Gearon; Chester Erskin producer) is the kind of play which is so embarrassingly bad that it makes a playgoer's flesh crawl. Billed as "a play about the end of an epoch," it presents a frieze of specious, spotty and purportedly War-wrecked characters against a recent Armistice Day celebration in Paris. Rarely encountered outside the pages of bogus novels, these gloomy folk go about telling each other that they are "so tired," complaining of "the jitters," wishing they were dead. Once in a while one encourages another to "buck...
...Sciences Professor Bancroft had the ears of the nation when that tight little body of scientists met in Cleveland. He shouted an angry tirade against medical scientists who had long scoffed at his chemical conclusions. His philippic delighted the multitudinous foes of organized medicine. It supplied quacks with specious arguments for years to come. And in sober essence it pitted the chemist mind, which elaborates theories from a few invariable facts, against the medical mind, which accepts healing principles only after painstaking weighing of forever varying human factors...
...Naturopath named Emerson B. Hartman than William Bradley Coley, mightily esteemed Manhattan cancer specialist. Naturopath Hartman advertises himself: ''CANCER SPECIALIST using the ANTITOXIN that has CURED the worst cancers known." Although his "antitoxin" is the stuff which Dr. William Frederick Koch, a discredited Detroit physician, exploits, the specious idea behind it skulks in the shadow of the very real cures of certain kinds of bone cancer which Dr. Coley has been able to make with a toxin...