Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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The announcement that Beck Hall is to be sold at auction brings up a line of memories and traditions that are unmistakably associated with Harvard. It means that one of the most colorful buildings of a most colorful epoch must make way for newer developments. But aside from this sentimental...
Garrick Gaieties. Their elders and betters having gone away for the summer and abandoned the neo-Andalusian splendor of the Theatre Guild's playhouse, the Bright Young People who occasionally perform under the Guild's aegis when a production of doubtful dignity is to be put on?e.g., Red Rust...
Your attitude towards Indian affairs . . . smacks of the sickly sentimental ism noticeable amongst those who view the travail of a lesser people from afar. . . .
Also the scenery and background are unusual: a sumptuous night club, sentimental ballads, whizzing taxicabs with mounted machine guns, desperados infesting the family entrance of the night club, cruel hardboiled policemen and imported dialogue consisting of "coppers," "rackete" "third-degrees" and the rest. This film is entirely different from anything...
Consensus of opinion suggests that you keep your textbooks for sentimental reasons. President Hibben of Princeton University suggests: "Every undergraduate leaving college should take his text books with him as a reminder and record of a past chapter in his life and as a nucleus of a library."