Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week it was Moscow's best opinion that slipping in the Dictator's favor is Defense Commissar Kliment ("Klim") Voroshilov. It has been noticed at Stalin's more recent public appearances that Klim pathetically works overtime striving to appear as much as possible near the Dictator and be seen in conversation with him. "Soso" (Joseph) Stalin has been notably inattentive, even at times visibly short with Klim...
...Mercury, Houseman runs the business end, Welles is Caesar (not Brutus) where stagecraft is concerned, and in his own opinion "pretty dictatorial." Welles does all cutting and rewriting, and does it with a fearless hand. For the much-applauded episode of Cinna the Poet in Julius Caesar, Welles cooly snitched lines out of Coriolanus. When a Mercury actor was asked when rehearsals on one of the season's classics would begin, he answered: "As soon as Orson has finished writing...
...opinion of blunt Manhattan Park Commissioner Robert Moses, "Barnum had his sacred white elephant and every fair is entitled to at least one theme tower." More irreverent remarks than this have been made about the esthetic and symbolic value of the Fair's great ball and spike. At the other extreme, the Fair's publicity department, whose lyricism is more than adequate to its task, has described the Perisphere as symbolic of the all-inclusive World of Tomorrow and the Trylon as a Pointer to Infinity. To the architects who designed the centre, however, the Perisphere and Trylon...
...MacCollum's opinion, lop ears are not due to improper care in childhood but are a congenital defect. A three-month fetus has lop ears, but if the baby is born with them it shows that something happened to the ears' development during the pre-natal period...
...Sunday, Dean Sperry wrote: "I have felt for a long time that you (members of the congregation) are compelled, under existing conditions to be much too silent and passive in your relations to the conduct of our affairs. There ought to be some means for the expression of your opinion as to the whole manner and content of our church life...