Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: . . . [In reference] to the picture of myself and my opinion of air transportation (TIME, Sept...
...storm of dispute among Drys as well as Wets. The Wets, of course, flayed the idea as a further encroachment on Liberty, a further botching of a bad law. They said it would make millions of additional criminals, fill jails beyond the bursting point. Drys were divided in their opinion. Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Senator Watson of Indiana were favorable. Such potent Drys as Idaho's Borah and Nebraska's Norris were opposed. The Anti-Saloon League weaseled, said it would consult its attorney. The press agent of the Methodists announced: "The amendment is particularly needful because...
Last fortnight a London ''bobby," strolling through Hyde Park on his early morning round, noticed something amiss with the bird sanctuary, approached and looked at Rima. She was almost invisible beneath tar and feathers. There were no clues. Public opinion was satisfied that this was the work of outraged friends of Peter Pan, the boy-who-would-never-grow...
...rendered conspicuous services to their country. Lee, Bragg, Sherman, Hooker, Grant, and McCellan are but a few of the West Point names distinguish-in the war. Winnfield Scott, who captured Mexico City, wrote in 1860 this famous statement, which every Plebe knows by heart: "I give it as fixed opinion, that but for our graduated cadets, the war between the United States and Mexico might, and probably would have lasted some four or five years, with, in its first half, more defeats than victories falling to our share; whereas, in less than two campaigns, we conquered a great country...
...questioned concerning her opinion on the innovation to be tried in the Savoy Theatre of London, where all the seats are to be covered in colors to match the frocks of women patrons, and replied...