Strongminded

It is in the main, a faithful picture of the isms of the North, and of Western Europe, except that our modern socialists exceed somewhat in absurdity and profanity the Black Republicans, and strongminded women of Athens.

Alexander III, the last of the consistently strongminded autocrats, launched a counterreform after the assassination of his father, but also set in motion a rapid program of industrialization which added industrial cities to the symmetrical garrison towns.

In her article “The Greatest of Bugaboos,” in which she also attacked the charge of “free love,” she noted that the term “strongminded” has been thrown at women to control their behavior: “Then came 'strongminded,' that sent the daughters of Eve scampering in all directions.