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Word: sentimentales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Children, says Mrs. Chaplin, should not be cursed with "Christmas card angels and depictions of an effeminate Jesus in a long, white nightgown. The simplicity of the old masters-for example. . . Fra Angelico-are loved by most children if they have not had the overdose of sentimental pictures beforehand."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Straight, No Sugar | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

As mayor of New York he is almost the antithesis of the man he succeeded. La Guardia, the imaginative, tireless, dictatorial little crusader, was also a spiteful petulant exhibitionist with a passion for speeding through the city in police cars and making faces at cameramen. At 57, Bill O'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: The Big Bonanza | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Last week, 100 members of Oxford's Labor Club decided to reenact the epic of Edwardian chivalry-even Socialists could be sentimental about the old days. They voted Anne Whates, a dark, buxom history student at Lady Margaret Hall, the girl for whom they would most willingly jump into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: And So to Die Again | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

¶ Baltimore, which had prayed for the Confederacy while Union troops held the city during the Civil War, reasserted its sentimental attachment to the South. Confederate flags flew and V.M.I, cadets paraded in full dress. Reason for the celebration: dedication of what Baltimore believed to be the "only double equestrian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Hundreds of Hawaiians lined Honolulu's Waikiki Beach one day last week to say goodbye to the famed old liner Mat-sonia. As the ship passed, on her last voyage to the mainland, a few sentimental spectators wept. One of Hawaii's most popular links with the mainland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aloha | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

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