Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jazz is nothing but a march tune, something used more than 2000 years ago, with occasional syncopations thrown in, played on unpleasant instruments, as insipid saxaphone, harsh trombones and trumpets, and ratting drums," was the opinion of Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor of the Symphony concerts in Boston this week, as he addressed a group of newspapermen in his suite in the Ritz Carlton...
Sirs: . . . There are two systems in vogue for handling the referendums of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Some organizations send out ballots to each and every member of their local organization. This gives an excellent cross section of the opinion in that community. The other method and the one used by our organization is just as effective. Our committee on National Affairs makes a thorough study of the referundum, taking into consideration the arguments both pro and con. Their resolution is then placed before the Board of Directors made up of 21 leading men in the community...
...nevertheless, the opinion of the college youth held by Bill Stonaker, veteran engineer on the Junction branch of the Pennsylvania railroad which hauls all of the boys to Princeton who do not walk, has taken a sudden jump for the better in the past few years...
With Colonel Lindbergh eliminated because of his years, public opinion gives definite indications of making Will Rogers its choice for the next president. Favorite son of Oklahoma, mayor of Claremont, California, the humorist has been so long an important critic of politics that his qualifications as a practitioner are worthy of consideration. True he is a humorist, but he is a serious humorist. His comic spirit is no capricious tease, or polished wit, or jovial scholar, but the ghost of a shrewd, observant Yankee with twinkling eyes and pursed lips. It is the spirit of Mark Twain, or Josh Billings...
That Harvard examinations are designed, with unfailing success, to put the fear of Deity into their victims has long been an expressed opinion at certain stated times of the year; new confirmation, however, of this result appears in one of the several guidebooks to the city of Boston, which states that the daily chapel attendance, in the period before examinations, increases three or four hundred per cent. Here is matter alike for the preacher, the prophet, and the psychologist. The daily chapel attendance at Appleton is usually neither so large nor so small as to cause exceptional comment; that...