Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upswing in British public life today is tall, trim-mustached Major Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Rams-bottom), Minister of Pensions, who wears behind his icy monocle an engaging twinkle. He became active last year as an oratorical scout, reconnoitring British public opinion in advance of the isolationist policies formally adopted by His Majesty's Government last week . In his preliminary skirmishes last year handsome Major Ramsbotham, the epitome of a British officer with a gallant War record, characteristically declared...
...Expert opinion offered by Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology and curator of Somatology indicates that the man was probably 40 years old when he died. Kidder explained that it was the custom in those days to keep the mummy lying around for as long as four years before he was finally buried in a hole in the ground, covered with sand...
Asked if the U. S. would intervene to regain the seized property of U. S. citizens in Mexico, the Ambassador observed philosophically: "What the word intervention means is purely a matter of opinion. . . . I don't see why [U. S.] tourists should discontinue coming to Mexico. . . . I don't think there will be any danger...
...pawns but his king is in check. The very act of removing Arthur Morgan made a Congressional investigation inevitable, and the President could only answer that he had always wanted one anyway. By his maneuvering, he now stands to lose an important legal decision, he has aroused public opinion, and the fact of the T.V.A. and other similar organization may be seriously imperilled by the court decision and the investigation of Congress...
Third session: Public opinion in relation to policy and politics, to freedom of expression. Unfairness of propaganda...