Word: speciousness
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...pasteurized milk, which the Vagabond always believed in his youth meant milk obtained from cows who grew up in a pasture. Quite frankly the Vagabond is sorry about this, but in the interests of truth he is forced to admit his ignorance. He never for a moment held the specious hope that this sad trifle would tone up his column. At any rate he is going to hear about Pasteur...
...specific cause of the apathy toward debating is the exclusive choice of political subjects, topics which often afford more opportunity for matching statistics and specious "debating points" than for matching careful thought, fine language, and ready wit. The discussion of subjects in the fields of fine arts and history as well as in politics would tend to draw more, and perhaps abler, men into debating and to arouse general undergraduate interest...
After quoting a Lucky Strike advertisement (with the name deleted) the Camel advertisement maintained that Luckies had fallen back on their toasting campaign only when the Federal Trade Commission ordered them to stop using "fake testimonials and specious argument that all can keep slender by smoking that brand of cigarettes." The Camel advertisement also objected to the inference that the cigaret industry used "rank tobaccos" with harmful irritants, saying, in effect, that while George Washington Hill could legitimately discuss the rank tobacco in Luckies and its improvement by toasting, he should not attribute such rankness to the industry...
...convocation ad dress: "College officers are forced to hold due reservation and to remain only mildly impressed by eloquent contentions that colleges exist solely to satisfy the wishes of the undergraduates. . . . What seems best for mankind as a whole cannot be forgotten or ignored in college management for the specious satisfaction of con forming to an ephemeral undergraduate opinion or the desires of self-centered individuals...
Gambling is a production in his best Broadway manner, possessed of a sharp, exciting first act, a specious but persuasive denouement and a cast that includes also Mary Phillips as Mazie...