Word: opinionatedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professorial, omni-opinionated Walter Boughton Pitkin, author, at 54, of Life Begins at Forty (1932), was a "guest expert" on Canada Dry's Information Please program, sat clam-mum throughout the entire half-hour quiz. Afterwards, he explained apologetically why he had not opened his mouth: he is hard...
Goodyear reported first half sales up 23%, profits up 116% to $3,610,595 from the year before. Boss of Goodyear is opinionated, poker-playing Paul W. Litchfield, who has tough Steelmaster Tom Girdler on his board. Litchfield is a great dirigible booster, a chum of Germany's Zeppeliner...
Hard to Get (Warner Bros.), like The Cowboy and the Lady, deals with romance between a poor but honest young working man (Dick Powell) and an opinionated but lovely young heiress (Olivia de Havilland) with a crotchety father (Charles Winninger). Product of the Hollywood minimum of five writers (Jerry Wald...
Although Oscar Lewis calls his book The Big Four, his first chapters make it plain that five men were instrumental in organizing the Central Pacific. The extra name was that of Theodore Dehone Judah, known as Crazy Judah in his prime, who surveyed the route of the Central Pacific over...
3) Dr. Rhine at Duke has come under the influence of venerable, opinionated Psychologist William McDougall, who once belonged to a "dubious" society for psychic research. Dr. McDougall and Dr. Rhine are among the few scientists who still believe in Lamarckism (inheritance of acquired characteristics).