Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union is the mouthpiece of student opinion in England, and considers problems relating to university life at annual congresses to which 500 representatives are sent from almost every university in the British Isles. Similar unions have been formed in the Dominions, notably Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, patterned upon and promoted by, the English Union...
...liberties which are guaranteed by the Constitution, and yet there are few men in public life who are more cruelly intolerant. He is perhaps the most effective opponent of organized bigotry in the country, and yet his own bigotry is at times almost venomous. He believes in freedom of opinion but has no respect for the opinions of others. His opponents are always idiots or rascals...
...dinner table with 13 of his aides. None could doubt that there had been much cruel and useless bloodshed; but the revolt was seemingly over, despite rumors to the contrary and assertions of bandit terrorism, which probably had nothing to do with the revolt. And that, in the opinion of most observers, was that. Protests from foreign powers seemed unlikely, the rumpus being a purely local affair...
...following lectures should, in the humble opinion of the Vagabond, contain interesting material for the intellectually inclined...
...excuse. His place on the collegiate ladder either approximates the top or the bottom. There is a clear alignment in this difference of rating. On one side are Harvard people, on the other a majority of the rest of the world, hardly a satisfactory division of opinion. But the fact remains that while he is theoretically inclined to view with disfavor such a position, he is quite as likely to practice not a little pride in it. The paradox is easily understandable and as closely as is possible approaches an explanation of a manner of thinking which has brought such...