Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little group of wilful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible." So said President Wilson of his Senate foes-most of them having been regular Republicans like the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and a few having been insurgent Democrats like Senator James A. Reed. But now the tide has swung around and President Coolidge, if he were inclined to squabble with the Senate, might have reason to make such a remark concerning the Republican insurgents. They hold the balance of power today in the 69th Senate; during...
...Supreme Court's ruling put an end to a suit begun in 1922 in the lower Federal courts by Samuel W. Lambert, learned physician of Manhattan, who sought to enjoin the Prohibition Unit from enforcing the provision concerning whiskey prescriptions. Justice Brandeis' opinion was upheld by Chief Justice Taft and associate Justices Holmes, Sanford, Van Devanter...
...might well be. Certainly no conscientious physician in charge of a serious case will waive his judgment of the need of his patient because of the dictate of a legislature or the opinion of a bench of judges...
MacDougall. Skeptical laymen were brought up short when Dr. Murchison read a paper contributed by Professor William MacDougall, Harvard psychologist, who sat on the Margery investigation committee. Dr. MacDougall was frank to say that ghosts, in his opinion, do exist. He lauded Clark University for agitating the question, urged other U. S. institutions to follow suit at once...
...less interesting to see how the romantic conception of Greek art influences popular opinion today. When we think of a Greek temple the very expression "classic", by which we describe it suggests pure white, immaculate marble, austere straight lines, and perfect symmetry. Much the same conception arises in regard to sculpture. That the snowy whiteness of the marble should ever have been colored seems not only impossible to most people but almost sac-religious. But it is well to realize that not only was such sculpture as was done in marble painted in many details, but also that colored designs...