Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whereupon, M. Champion, the interviewer goes on to relate, began to laugh at the thought of poor backward France, where people are less puritan but more virtuous than in free but dry America. His opinion of modern American literature as compared with French, was likewise not very high...
...letters, cited as examples of the turning tide are printed under the headline, the most characteristic one of which is from Mrs. Lucy P. Hayden of H. Wayne Street, Roxbury, who "urges the governor to refuse to extend any clemency to Sacco and Vanzetti. She says this expresses the opinion of all her acquaintances with whom she has talked...
...know how many members of the Supreme Bench concurred in this extraordinary decision. It is the custom of the Massachusetts Court to announce its decisions as a body, and not to give voice to minority opinion, if such exists. This reticence does not bind other great courts, such as the United States Supreme Court or the New York Court of Appeals. Nor do such other great courts refrain from making their first concern the one thing of paramount importance, the material value of the new evidence...
...absolutely unanimous condemnation of the West Chester head's action and attitude which the press has offered is a hopeful indication. It is possible that the right of free speech may have to be ingrafted into the educational system by external sources. Public opinion is turning and with it must turn the iron schoolmasters. Even the most opiniated authorities may credit some weight to the statement of such men as Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York who says, regarding the affair that he ". . deplores such attacks, whether by the American Legion or any other patriotic organization, which...
...from the Princetonian to set itself up as dramatic arbiter whose opinion is the sine qua non of theatrical criticism, but a four-to-one preference one way or another is certainly the essence of standardization. And when an aethetic concensus is in favor of the inartistic--or let us say, the hackneyed--deus ex machina as opposed to the more logical and, therefore from a dramatic standopint, the more artistic unhappy ending--it is time to do something beyond complimenting ourselves...