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Word: opinionizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...HAVE BEEN QUITE SERIOUSLY EMBARRASSED BECAUSE OF AN ERROR WHICH OCCURRED IN YOUR ISSUE OF JULY 23 PAGE SEVEN REFERRING TO ME AS BEING IN FAVOR OF THE ELECTION OF THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE FOR PRESIDENT STOP NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE FACT STOP HERBERT HOOVER IS IN MY OPINION BETTER QUALIFIED FOR THAT OFFICE THAN ANY CANDIDATE WHO HAS EVER BEEN NAMED BY ANY PARTY STOP I AM MOST DESIROUS OF AIDING IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE TO BRING ABOUT HIS ELECTION...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...Williamstown (Mass.) Institute of Politics. No Sultan-10ver, Mme. Halide divulged secrets of the Turkish harems, permitted herself a social slur: "The better class of Turks never practiced polygamy and men who had harems were socially in disfavor, despite the fact that the Sultans always had one. Public opinion in Turkey is against the harem. Polygamy is now bootleg." Dr. Sven V. Knudsen herded 304 U.S. schoolboys aboard the Hellig Olav, bound on a goodwill tour of Scandinavia. What Pilgrim Knudsen told friends at the pier, what he may reveal to awed Scandinavians, is this: "The boy of today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comings & Goings: Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...modifications were ordered introduced at Scotland Yard by special fiat of the Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks (Arch-Conservative). The minority report, signed by a Laborite, flayed Scotland Yard for administering an indefensible and scandalous Third Degree, accused police inspectors of collusion and prevarication, and expressed the opinion that Inspector Collins, who grilled Miss Savidge, had deliberately twisted her replies in a misleading manner for purposes of police record. . . . A most unfortunate impression was created when a Laborite asked "Does corruption exist at Scotland Yard?" and Sir William Joynson-Hicks triumphantly and almost airily replied: "I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Funny Old Things | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...oracles of Soviet policy. Stalin has triumphed over Trotsky and his chief followers, expelling them from the Communist party and banishing them from Soviet Russia. But last week Trotsky's case was brought before the Delegates of the Internationale as though before a supreme court of world Communist opinion. Friends of Exile Trotsky put forth a printed broadside containing the following appeal: "We raise before the Sixth Congress of the Communist Internationale the question of restoring us to our party. . . . "The banishment of us, soldiers of the October Revolution and comrades in arms of Lenin, is a clear proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Red Menace | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

...grey-haired oldster fell drably short of the tales of knights and ladies, her childhood favorites. But, after all, the lady, though golden-haired, was a stenographer. Author Weaver* still writes New Yorkese correctly, effectively. But he pieces it out with stilted paragraphs of unlikely philosophy and extraneous sophisticated opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Brooklynese | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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