Word: sentimentalist
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Once a week Nat Gubbins speaks for the British man-in-the-street better than the British man-in-the-street can speak for himself. Dry-eyed sentimentalist, sly humorist, casual reformer, recorder of mutton-headed remarks, he has become the most widely read of British columnists. He has no U.S. parallel. His column, "Sitting On The Fence," is a kind-of literary comic strip, in which various permanent characters comment obliquely or directly on the affairs...
...excitement," said sentimentalist Doolittle later, "I forgot to return my son's salute. I felt like a heel...
...could teach mere boys to understand their Mother Tongue in its greatest period, the late 16th and early 17th centuries, until they were so saturated with it that they could write and even speak Elizabethan English. And in a time when intellectual standards have been slackened, when every arrant sentimentalist can spring a new educational theory and the wine of learning is watered, the austerity of a Kittredge, his snorting contempt for low standards, has been a bracing sea-wind in a hot-house...
...Antonito, Conductor Henry Willis, who had spent almost a quarter of a century on the run, climbed carefully down. No sentimentalist, Conductor Willis exclaimed, " I'm glad to get off that danged rattletrap...
When he liked an actress' work he used to say: "She gives me a lump." Being a sentimentalist, he was the natural companion of George M. Cohan. He met Mr. Cohan at a picnic in 1904, and before the day was over made him a producing partner. The partnership lasted 16 years and gave Broadway 50 shows. The first was Little Johnny Jones, and in it George Cohan sang for the first time Give My Regards to Broadway and The Yankee Doodle...