Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Longworth darkened with a double frown when, last week, a clerk brought into the House the Senate's resolution for immediate tariff reduction (TIME, Jan. 23). Democrats cried out for action, but Speaker Longworth ruled them out of order and left the resolution "in midair" as a mere opinion of the Senate which the House could and would ignore...
Democratic-leader Robinson took this insubordination calmly. Other members of the Hearst-investigating committee got up to confirm his opinion of the alleged Roman Catholic "conspiracy." But Senator Heflin continued insubordinate. This time the fight waxed...
...comment on the encyclical, which reiterated Roman Catholic refusal to make unifying concessions (TIME, Jan. 23), was that contributed by Dr. Robert Norwood, Manhattan non-sectarian clergyman. Famed for the sweeping periods of his rhetoric, for the expansive, oratorical gestures with which he embellishes his sermons, he stated his opinion of the Pope's document at a meeting of the American Waldensian* Aid Society: "The encyclical recently compounded is a childish document springing from an obsolescent ecclesiasticism, a remote legacy of the imperial idea of ruling the Kingdom of Christ by the Imperialism of Caesar. ... I am a Protestant...
...Story, even before it became gospel truth, had been told many times and in many ways. Its outlines, the framework that is a matter of fact, not opinion, belief or hypothesis, remains comparatively fixed. It begins on a morning in Bethlehem, Palestine, when a woman called Mary gave birth to a small child whose father was either, according to the faith or cynicism of the reader, her husband or the Almighty...
...process by which the plates are being made is one similar to that employed by makers of wood-cuts before the days of half-tones. The plates are to be finished in a series of handwork which, in the opinion of connoisseurs, will make them excellent samples of blue Staffordshire, and valuable from the collector's standpoint...