Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mention first the insinuations of Mr. Dillington-Dowse against the people of the United States. Secondly I should like to express the opinion that his patronizing belittlement of, TIME, coupled with the ridiculous mishandling of tense in his letter, arouses in my mind the very gravest suspicions as to how he obtained the stationery bearing the imprint of the "Author's Club, 2 Whitehall Court, S. W. 1, London, England...
...have been amused at the letters from one of our members, Mr. Stanley Altman, which you have been fair enough to publish (TIME, May 2, 30). I am of the opinion that he has bested you, and that's quite a feat in itself. Really, I congratulate you on publishing them...
...course, entre nous, you are forced to be servile to public opinion, and cannot call your mind your own-when you are in your office. Your refusal of Haldeman-Julius's advertising must have made you keep away from mirrors for a while. I have been surprised at the class of periodicals he has entered with his advertising, and believe you would be safe in taking...
Levees. Popular confidence in the levee system has been shaken, if not destroyed, by their failure to prevent the present flood from inundating some 20,000 square miles and making homeless some 600,000 people. But expert opinion still clings to them as the backbone of flood prevention. Doubtless they will, in the future, be built higher and stronger, but, as far as can at present be determined, the levee will always carry the main burden of confining the river and to it all other methods will be not more than adjuncts, auxiliaries. Writing for the New York World Herbert...
Primo de Rivera, bullnecked, florid, paunchy, inflexible, replied by sending a circular note of reprimand to Opposition news paper editors: "The Government shall defend its firm and irrevocable resolve, already taken, and it shall not permit any opposition designed to distract, alienate or misinform public opinion, which in the majority has accepted this solution as the best offered in the exercise of the dictatorship under the Government's exclusive responsibility to country and King...