Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...side issue, yet socially important, was the way in which the entire Lindbergh story emphasized the new "power of the press." As a molder of opinion on vital political issues, the newspapers may have almost ceased to function, but the development of press associations, of syndicates and of special writers has enabled them to take any outstanding event and bring thou- sands upon thousands of words upon it before the eyes of virtually every literate U. S. inhabitant. Who has not seen the Lindbergh photographs? Who, asked to whom the nicknames "Slim," "Lucky," apply, would hesitate for an answer...
...decision is taken," said Viscount Byng, "in view of the recent charges made by Lord Rosebery that many peerages are bought with money which finds its way into party funds. ... I am of the opinion that a titular reward ought not to be conditional upon the payment of any at all substantial...
...death so that his body might be taken in secret to his home? . . . "From the first no one desired more ardently than I that the entire truth be known about this death. Recently I gave my support to a petition for a revision of evidence, contrary to the opinion of the commission hearing the case. Even when the sentence was pronounced I would have wished that it should not be executed, despite the abominable calumnies which your son has showered upon me in the past few years...
...Last year the Rockefeller Foundation set out to maintain scientific research in public health affairs; to support medical education; to train health officers, laboratory workers, engineers and nurses: to organize health ices; to secure appropriate legislation; to provide money where necessary; and to stir up public opinion to support public health. Accomplishments. During 1926 the Foundation spent $9,741,474, and got these definite results...
...deprives them for the time of the right to al themselves civilized. The doctor has eradicated the old Black Plague, or has driven it into the dark corners of the earth. Never again will it sweep the crowd in cities, striking as it goes. Today the doctors of public opinion, the men who write, who edit, who produce, who talk, have before them a greater opportunity than ever before to eradicate the Twentieth. Century Black Plague. Let the people see more of the barbed wire. Let them hear less of the drums...