Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple words it is that he favors going into the Paris league and I favor staying out." In view of the fact that the League of Nations is the vital issue of the campaign, a Cox-Roosevelt Club has been formed for the effective organization of pro-League sentiment among the students of the University. Believing that the League is the greatest moral issue with which the people of the United States has ever been confronted, the Cox-Roosevelt Club stands unequivocally for the ratification of the Treaty and Covenant with such clarifying or interpretative reservations as may be consistent...
...plays right into your accuser's hand. You yourself prove beyond the shadow of a doubt to an intellectual world no longer as narrow-minded and provincial as it used to be, that every word uttered against you was true, that you are indeed (if your statements reflect the sentiment of your college) a hot-bed of despicably British Toryism. When the so-called "loyal coalition" can quote you, you have indeed reached heights of ignorant bigotry and falsehood...
...American Expeditionary Force, when it put into khaki, in a great cause, literal millions to whom the American Republic was but a name, blocked out the vast work of patriotic fusion which the Legion now has to do. The Legion's function is to make the sentiment of American militant citizenship real, and real forever, in American lives. Evidently it does not shirk that task in the least. It will be greeted, in its Cleveland convention, on the thresh-hold of a wonderful career of public service. --Boston Transcript...
...hour arrives which the Senior has long anticipated, the climax and ultimate goal of his collegiate career, he is impressed more and more by the sentiment, but less and less by the finality of the occasion. He begins to sense the true significance of "Commencement," that graduation is only the beginning, not the end, and that the college world is a small one compared to those which still await conquest...
...have written this rather attractive sestina "just for a handful of silver" by way of prize, as to have let bad grammar and worse sentiment appear as the product of one's muse. Among the smaller poems in the June number appear such lines as these...