Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first place, the conscription firecracker did not go off. Maurice Duplessis seemed to forget that France was at war as well as Britain. His constituency did not forget that Ottawa, not Quebec, has the final say on conscription, and so the voting would be mere polling of opinion. His Liberal opponents opposed conscription as violently as he did, anyhow. And conscription did not have a strong enough stink to kill the odor of red herring...
...wash dirty political linen, they run it through a plebiscite, and it comes out pure as Ivory Soap. Last week Soviet Russia made it perfectly clear that Eastern Poland had all along pined to be invaded. While the Moscow press carefully emphasized that there was complete freedom of opinion at the polls, Poles, Ukrainians and White Russians flocked to voting places and cast ballots for candidates for the new National Assemblies (Soviets) of Western Ukraine and White Russia...
...CRIMSON and Lampoon will be studied as a means of tracing the changing trends of student opinion at Harvard during the last fifty years," Hartshorne said. One purpose of this study is to give the individual student a social insight into his own situation in the University and in society as a whole...
Quite obviously, U.S. business is all set for a war boom. Dangerous as such a boom may be, it is unavoidable. American public opinion would not permit any embargoes to be placed on our foreign trade, not only because it is profitable, but also because it is almost entirely with the Allies, with whom our sympathies lie. As a Washington wiseacre commented, "For once, the dough and the ideals are on the same side." They certainly seem to make an unbeatable combination. We can only pray that the Neutrality Bill, which seems soon to be passed, will keep the resulting...
Queried by TIME for his opinion of Whiteside, ex-Dramatic Critic Woollcott answered: "I only review plays for money." In Too Many Girls (produced by George Abbott) Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who always bob up with something as little like their last musicomedy as possible, have jumped all the way from Shakespeare and old Syracuse to college and New Mexico. Their scene is a rundown campus called Pottawatomie ("One of those colleges that play football on Fridays") and their plot a combination of Boy Meets Girl and Team Beats Rival...