Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Partisan Association was organized in January and stands for the entrance of the United States into the League either with or without reservations. It also aims to cultivate a public sentiment favorable to President Harding's World Court proposition...
...United States is only about 100 pounds, and in consequence the advance so far entails an added expense of only a few dollars per annum to each individual. The chief result of the threatened boycott of sugar in this country has been the creation of considerable hostile sentiment in Cuba. The Cuban Association of Sugar Planters in a public manifesto laid the blame for high sugar upon the Cuban crop failure and the American tariff. The Havana newspaper, Heraldo de Cuba, advocated a boycott against American goods, if Cuban sugar is boycotted here...
...emphasizing the purposes in founding the University paper, Mr. Henry C. Merwin '74 said that the CRIMSON was founded to protest against the prevailing reactionary sentiment created by the Civil War. In closing the spoke to the effect that there is little question that the League of Nations would be entered by this country if only the young men of the country voted...
...experience of Yale, if no more than a fiction, is a lesson for all time. With the pride of crudition, it sponsors chose for its motto a high-sounding. He brew phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux of Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to, have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...
...report which proposes a more extensive and definite attitude on public affairs outside the colleges. It is recognized that "the undergraduate of today, being the leader of tomorrow, should learn before graduation to think in national terms." If the college publications can help to rouse and crystallize sentiment on important national and international matters, they will make undergraduate opinions more effective, give them an outlet, and perhaps help the student to prepare for public activities after college. Undeniably, there is at the present time a revival of student enthusiasm for such matters. This is a tendency that can periodicals...