Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parliamentary Opinion...
...this week, Serge Bogousslavsky, guarded by two lawyers, marched into a police station, unwrapped newspapers from a bundle under his arm, surrendered the painting. Officials pronounced it the original but awaited the return of experts from their Assumption Day holiday for a final opinion...
...later De Forest rewrote it, tried unsuccessfully to persuade Harper to bring it out again. At last, prodded by renewed interest in the Civil War, the changed attitudes toward candor in fiction, the publishers have belatedly acknowledged that De Forest and Howells were right, that their predecessors and public opinion had been wrong...
...defeat of Dr. Colijn's hoary oldsters was a victory for democratic theory which asserts that governments should represent majority opinion. Unfortunately the Dutch Parliament is so split among minor parties that not one of them can command a sure majority. Last week Dr. D. J. de Geer, leader of the Christian Historical Party, smaller but a shade less conservative than the Anti-Revolutionaries, formed a new Cabinet. Now that they are rid of stiff-necked Dr. Colijn, the Socialists and Catholics may well be ready to support a compromise policy...
...medical law, as he well knew, no doctor could operate without the patient's consent. And the patient would not consent. Said he: "If I don't die I will have it to do over again. I had more trouble than I could stand." Asked for an opinion, Attorney General Earl Warren told the hospital that Dr. Cardwell was within his rights. Mrs. Cardwell, found traveling with a friend, and Son Samuel Cardwell, who heard the news by radio, both agreed. So the doctors put their knives away, waited for the patient to suffer a change of heart...