Word: sentimentalists
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...poor but respectable parents, he was early made to feel the young hopeful. He won a scholarship to a public school (Christ's Hospital) where he learned to be ashamed of his background. He sums up his youthful self as "part snob, part coward, part sentimentalist ... an unattractive personality." But he went up to Oxford with a reputation as a bright lad. His chances for a first-class degree went glimmering when, vacationing in Paris, he fell in love with a French cocotte. He spent two vacations with her, let her lure him into an engagement, then ran away...
...father's friend. Live in a House and have the maid change and clean and handle the furniture at will? Friends need a friend's care. The Vagabond stays! And this coat: give up a garment which has served so well and so long. No. The Vagabond is a sentimentalist. New things, modern things will not pollute him; his is the richness of the past; his the luxuries only of the mind. Come Professors, warm over your courses. The Vagabond lives again...
Because Frederic François Chopin was ethereally pale and consumptive, because his music has always had a romantic appeal for ladies, the tendency has been for many a layman to regard him as a little man of music, a sentimentalist whose place is in the parlor. Chopin acquires great stature when played by great musicians. An unreserved admirer is British Pianist William Murdoch who this week tells Chopin's story in a good detailed biography.* Many a writer has made Chopin seem doomed from boyhood. According to Pianist Murdoch, his early days were easy compared to those...
...also loud and not 'in good taste.' " "I have not found," he explains, "the U. S. a standardized mortuary and consequently have no sympathy with that school of detractors whose experience has been limited to first class hotels and the paved highways. At the same time I am no sentimentalist. I know an ass and the dust of his kicking when I come across it. But I have come across enough of it to be able to discover interesting qualities therein...
TIME, March 12, glorifies Charles Dickens properly, but errs in attributing to "modern debunkers" a description of Dickens as "snob, sentimentalist and egotist." Those identical qualities of Dickens caused him to be kicked down the stairs of the Louisville Gait House in the late '60s. The manager of that famed hotel put his boot in Dickens' rear and lifted him down the great stairway, to the amazement of the world. Kentucky historians record the incident. It can be verified by files of the Louisville Courier-Journal, now owned by our Ambassador to the Court of St. James...