Word: opinionatedness
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The Courier-Journal stopped its presses for one minute on the 100th birthday of its founder, the late Colonel Henry Watterson. Of that fierce, opinionated, ex-Confederate cavalryman, who made the old Courier-Journal a fiery organ of Southern Democracy, Arthur Krock (onetime editorial manager of Marse Henry's...
Charles Wilkes was not the first to find antarctic land-that had been done 20 years earlier by Nathaniel Brown Palmer, a Connecticut sealing captain-but he was the first to make enough landfalls to establish an Antarctic Continent. After the War of 1812, whaling and sealing began to spread...
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...