Word: speciousness
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...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...
...published the facts, said: "We hope this information will be spread throughout the maligned Middle West. If any college man there is approached by an agent of this public-spirited concern, he may know that endorsements alleged to have been written by Yale, Harvard or Princeton undergraduates are necessarily specious-that, by the admission of the agent himself, they must be either forged or perjured." In Chicago last week Standard Encyclopedia Corp., which has been in business since 1909, denied that it had made any extraordinary offers, suggested that its salesmen had perhaps "overstepped themselves" in describing the research bureau...
...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...
...Many have lost the savings of a lifetime, many are unemployed. . . . This is passing trial. . . . Never was the lure of the rosy path to every panacea or of easy ways to imagined security more tempting. For the energies of private initiative we are offered an alluring substitute in the specious claim that hired representatives of 100,000,000 people can do better than the people themselves in thinking and planning their daily life. . . . "We are still fighting this war of independence...
...inquiry into the lower courts, oldest of his three current inquisitions, suddenly bore more fruit after a hiatus of several weeks. Policeman Richard B. Ganly, onetime vice squad member, was sentenced to from four to eight years in Sing Sing for testifying falsely against a woman in a specious prostitution case. Policeman Ganly is the second vice squad man to .be sentenced from testimony dug up by the Seabury investigation. His counsel pleaded that he be sent to a Federal penitentiary rather than to the State's prison. Two months ago Policeman Ganly, having been dismissed from the police...