Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"England is the most sentimental nation on earth . . . 50 to 100 years should be sufficient commemoration by a statue for numbers of men so honored. ... It is a very striking thing that some of the most eminent men, men without whose names English history could not be written, are commemorated...
There is a further and more important objection than these, however, to the very idea which the Poetry Room embodies. It stands for an artificial sentiment about poetry as a kind of writing which requires to be set off by itself and cradled in an arty setting of red velvet...
But George Bernard Shaw and God were too much for Blanco and Feemy. Between the two of them they turned these hardened sinners into sentimental softies. What God couldn't supply George came through with. God furnished a rainbow and a baby with the croup, and George brought forth situations...
Copley--"Prince of Pilsen." A periodic engagement of a better-than-average troupe presenting one of those sentimental romantic operettas of Old Germany.
In spite of all murmuring, the chemistry bureaucrats will continue on their way. The method has the great advantage of taking trouble off the shoulders of the faculty, and of conserving time. In this respect, it is a plan which might well be followed by other sections of the University...