Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whimsical, perverse, doubtful Vag has been the wry, yet sometimes sentimental, humorist of the editorial page since the end of 1926. At first, "The Student Vagabond" embodied an anonymous impersonal editor who would recommend certain lectures for possible browsers to audit. Eventually and inevitably, however, Vag's name stirred editorial...
"Unless the law is subsequently modified," President Conant declared, "all our colleges, universities, and technical schools will have heavy responsibilities when the wave of demobilized veterans hits our, educational system. Unless high standards of performance can be maintained in spite of sentimental pressures and financial temptation we may find the...
Things were different, sure, but there were compensating factors. Like the Radcliffe girls. They were dumber now, he thought, but a helluva lot better looking. Sometimes, when Vag had had a sufficient amount of beer at the O.G., he could get sentimental about the good old days, and all that...
A new fast-selling book in England last week cracked an angry whip at the public (i.e., private) school system. Called George Brown's Schooldays, and written by Bruce Marshall, * it parodies Thomas Hughes's preachy, sentimental story of life at Rugby, Tom Brown's School Days...
¶ Sectarian belief in free and spontaneous prayer has a tendency to degenerate "into banal, sentimental, and chatty conversations with God."