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Word: sentimentalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Operations in which large numbers of men may lose their lives ought not to be described by code words which imply a boastful and overconfident sentiment, such as "Triumphant," or, conversely, which are calculated to invest the plan with an air of despondency, such as "Woebetide" . . . They ought not to be .. . . frivolous . . . After all, the world is wide, and intelligent thought will readily supply . . . well-sounding names which do not suggest the character of an operation or disparage it in any way and do not enable some widow or mother to say that her son was killed in an operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Operation Smack | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...holdings, he argued calmly but insistently that he ought to be allowed to keep his $1,440,000 worth of stock in the textile firm of J. P. Stevens & Co., Inc., which makes millions of dollars' worth of uniform cloth for the armed forces. "... I am steeped in sentiment and tradition with respect to the company that bears my father's name," he said. Requiring him to give up the stock, he contended, would establish "an important principle and precedent," which would "have a long and serious adverse effect on the willingness of ... successful business executives to serve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Lock & Barrel | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...little Madeleine is Mrs. Robert Henrey, au thor of several well-written books, mother of gifted Child Actor Bobby Henrey (The Fallen Idol). Her saga of life & death in Paris is an endearing, peculiarly feminine mixture of gentleness and Gallic realism, a reminder that life has its quota of sentiment and that it can be conveyed without sentimentality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: French Without Tears | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

With wonderful impartiality, the play admits shenanigans and sentiment, parades live models and dead wheezes, has touches of realism and great chunks of hokum. The Fifth Season comes, theatrically, from a very dull and noisy family: what is surprising is not that so much of it is painful, but that some of it-thanks to Skulnik...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...article in the New York Evening Post among other things said, "The Harvard CRIMSON--a very fine and high-grade expression of the best student sentiment--has great influence and deserves to have...

Author: By Richard A. Burgheim, | Title: The Crime---Action and Achievement | 1/8/1953 | See Source »

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