Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each month the selecting committee, composed of Henry Seidel Canby. Dorothy Canfield and William Allen White selects that book which in its opinion is from all angles the best of those published, and most representative of the proper trend in modern literature. This book is then sent to each of the 40,000 subscribers to the club...
When asked for the opinion concerning the Mexican situation Bob laid the blame on the two factions in Mexico. "Mexicans ain't all there," opined Bob. "They don't know how to manage. Two factions raise all the racket. It's the same in China. The Chinese have so many languages among themselves. We are also more civilized than the Chinese, we know how to act, how to control ourselves. They can only say "no checkee . . . no laundree". But it's different with the Italians. They made good in this country. It it wasn't for them we wouldn...
When asked her opinion of mystery plays Miss Rambova replied that they were most strenuous for the actress. "We are continually studying the audience," she said, "in order to get the right effect. So much depends on the little things. You must close a door with the most mysterious manner, there must be an added significance in the way you walk across the room. It is fun though to try and thrill the audience. Once the cast has them in its power we enter into the spirit of the thing and almost frighten ourselves. Again we have to rehearse...
...York, the modern Babylon, at this time of year holds out a welcoming hand to such students as have survived the midyear examinations, which by a general consensus of opinion have been harder than ever before. Minds which have been wound up like a spring for the semi-annual ordeal feel that they are entitled to the lubrication of a week-end trip. Timetables of trains and steamers and criticisms of New York plays are much in demand...
...last the "bizarre" Scopes trial was pronounced dead. Last week, after having delicately reproached it in a divided opinion which held the Tennessee anti-evolution law constitutional but reversed the conviction of Teacher John Thomas Scopes (TIME, Jan. 24), the Supreme Court of Tennessee denied Teacher Scopes's lawyer their request for a rehearing, and Attorney General L. D. Smith formally carried out the court's suggestion that the case be pigeonholed forever...