Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At the last minute a hitch in Mr. Doak's appointment developed. James John Davis, "for sentimental reasons," had wished to terminate his ten years of Cabinet membership simultaneously with assuming his position in the Senate. When it became known that he would not be seated on the Senate...
A far gentler satirist than Leech or Arno, Artist Gibson seldom made fun of the Gibson Girl herself. Occasionally in the drawings which made Life the most popular humorous weekly in the country and brought Artist Gibson enough money to buy the magazine from its former owners, the Gibson Girl...
Author Herbert has written a mildly humorous, mildly sentimental, very entertaining book. The Water Gipsies is really a fairy story with a realistic background.
So long as Mr. Milne shows the past with a charmingly sentimental wit, he is on firm ground. He creates a strong sympathy for both of his leading characters that follows to the end of the play. When he sets David to orating on the Futility and Superficiality of the...
Not long ago a group of Harvard men bought Beck Hall. The reasons for this purchase, they announced, were largely sentimental. Many graduates hearing of it, hoped that the dormitory, whose future of late years has been uncertain, would, at last, be given a decent burial. But it now appears...