Word: sentimentalists
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...mother says that he will never retire because he loves the Band too much, but DePinto himself, outwardly less of the sentimentalist, says, "Heck, if I'm going to sit there and watch, I might as well be on the field with them...
...Babe's detractor has a memory too. "Weren't the rules on Ruth's side then? There were no ground-rule doubles. Some of his homers actually bounced into the stands. Counting them that way, Mantle might have broken the record already." The sentimentalist has a ready answer: "The fences are shorter now, which makes things more than even. And what about the rabbit ball...
...store has a stock of 600,000 volumes. The extras are there, from poker chips to toy Liberace pianos, but the book's the thing. In the store's 40,000 sq. ft., modern design and display are geared to catch the customer's attention. No sentimentalist, young Kroch has introduced supermarket methods in a special self-service department for paperbacks and reprints, provides gaily colored baskets to encourage customers to buy them by the peck...
Villiers may be a partisan of sail, but he is no salt-sprayed sentimentalist. Sailing men may have loved their ships and their calling, but "it was first and foremost a source of employment, a means of livelihood. [The sailor] hated the sea as a savage enemy." Says Author Villiers tartly: "It is landsmen who speak of 'the call of the sea.' " The pay was wretched and the food was often worse. When steam brought hard times, many owners made up crews of teen-age boys who paid for the experience. One such crew of youngsters...
...sentimentalist used to achieve a sermon fortunately quite obsolete now, but still heard. It was a Confectioner's Sermon, like a wedding cake, a great, airy structure with candy chateaux, gardens of angelica, true lovers' knots of sugar, and hearts of purest whipped cream...