Word: opportunistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Opportunist...
...predecessors, I have read from cover to cover?you print an interesting discussion of Major Angas' book, The Coming American Boom; and while giving to one of its publishers, Mr. M. Lincoln Schuster, due credit for his skill and initiative, you speak of Mr. Schuster as "as shrewd an opportunist as there is in the publishing world." In every fine sense this seems true; but if you meant by "opportunist" a man who seizes every chance to aggrandize himself, regardless of principles, I trust you will let me contradict you. Time and again I have seen Mr. Schuster vote...
...steadfastly pursued, it is bound to reach a successful conclusion." Major Angas admits that "to an observer who sees from day to day only the disjointed and apparently unpredictable actions of the Administration, the whole experiment is apt to appear as the muddled meddling of a happy-go-lucky opportunist. . . ." But he believes there is an underlying theme which is "clear, consistent and fundamentally sound." That theme, says Major Angas. is monetary?simply "Reflate, then stabilize...
...that M. Lincoln Schuster and Richard L. Simon will. These two bright young publishers, who together are Simon & Schuster, Inc., put Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas in their idea file late last year. With few exceptions. Major Angas has hitherto published his works privately, but Mr. Schuster, as shrewd an opportunist as there is in the publishing world, was sure he could make the Major a potential best seller. Not until last week, however, did Mr. Schuster come to terms with Major Angas. Then with typical energy Messrs. Simon & Schuster put out the book in three days. The original print order...
...They are liberal without being icy. They are independent without deserting Christianity. They are socially-minded without becoming faddists. . . . They are experimental and opportunist without scattering and fighting the air. They are progressive without becoming latitudinarian. . . . Instead of so much emphasis on soul saving, the church must direct its attention to life saving . . . must become a clubhouse, a community house, a place of refuge for all lonely and perplexed, instead of a guardhouse and a place of penitence and tears...