Premise: Seething under the brim of his three-corner hat.

Hypothesis: He was wearing a hat.
Answer: yes

Premise: The offsetting disadvantages?

Hypothesis: The best part?
Answer: no

Premise: Free speech and free elections were not the only gambling was legalized and nude bathing was sanctioned.

Hypothesis: Free speech was legalized.
Answer: yes

Premise: He seemed older and more shriveled, and there was a querulous, pinched expression in place of the firmness and almost nobility Dave had come to expect.

Hypothesis: Dave saw petulance in place of the stoicism he expected.
Answer: yes