Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven tired diplomats, headed by Yugoslavia's Dr. Stojan Gavrilovic, stepped out of a plane at LaGuardia Field to begin 1946's most publicized house hunt. Soon they ran into a devastating propaganda barrage by cities which want to become the home of UNO-and refuse to be...
The war correspondents, said Mencken, were "a sorry lot, either typewriter-statesmen turning out dope stuff drearily dreamed up. or sentimental human-interest scribblers turning out maudlin stuff about the common soldier, easy to get by the censors. Ernie Pyle was a good example. He did well what he set...
The President, a sentimental man, enjoyed the holidays. He ate turkey, went out on the front porch of the "little White House" at Independence, Mo. to greet the carolers, bought his 93-year-old mother "the usual sort of thing a fellow buys." He granted full pardons to all the...
But there were still a few citizens wondering whether his journey had been sentimental or just plain foolhardy.
Most of the 13 White House reporters and five photographers who tagged along on the President's Christmas homecoming thought it was a foolish trip. In their stories, some of them said so. Wrote the New York Times's Felix Belair: it was "one of the most hazardous...