Word: sentimentalist
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...serenity of Cleveland's lakefront will be split by one hell of a yell: Lou Boudreau will have returned to Municipal Stadium and some 60,000 teary voices will rise together in protest that he should have never left. The average Cleveland baseball fan is funny that way; a sentimentalist, he would still prefer the Indians in the second division under Boudreau than on top (as they currently are) under somebody else...
...screen in "A Lover's Return." He plays a ballet impressario who returns to Lyons, the scene of his supposed murder 20 years before. A visit to the family in whose home the "death" occured shows him that no one has changed in the interval but himself. Once a sentimentalist, he now sees things differently through the perspective of time...
...Sentimentalist. In St. Joseph, Mo., a thief broke into the sheriff's office, made off with the cornerstone of the old jail...
...single photographed human face. It embellishes the outline of the classic tale with half a dozen simple, hummable tunes and the abounding whimsies of eight Disney writers. The fairy godmother becomes a dithery homebody who has some trouble remembering the magic words; the king is a wildly irascible sentimentalist, and a whole Disney menagerie cavorts on all sides...
...Sydney Telegraph rushed Australian Crown Prosecutor Charles Rooney 12,000 miles to London by air to cover the trial with a lawyer's eye. The London Daily Mail hired long-haired Author Peter Quennell, who was obligingly overwhelmed: "By comparison, Crippen was a sentimentalist and Landru† a boastful playboy." Even the dignified London Times gave the story three full columns...