Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been claiming most persistently. Mr. Good was frank to say last week that "an educational campaign on the farm problem is essential." He arrives at decisions like this by forming Hoover-Curtis clubs throughout a State and from their reports compiling a cross section of the State's sentiment. He then prepares material, inspects the local machinery for distributing it and fires away...
...seeing Mr. Johnstone's cartoon, Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith of the Chicago Daily News telegraphed the World asking whether the cartoon was representative of New York "sentiment...
...World replied that it had made no canvass of public sentiment, that the cartoon expressed only the view of Mr. Johnstone, a onetime Chicagoan. Then the World asked the News to wire 1,000 words on the "public excitement in Chicago" over it. The News obliged with quotes...
After his "revel in sentiment" (as he called it), the Nominee motored to Cedar Rapids. Delegations of Farmers and Farmers' Friends from 14 States* were accorded personal receptions on the wide veranda of "Brucemore," an estate, equipped even to pond swans, owned by a Mrs. George W. Douglas. There were no speeches or press statements. The Nominee, with smiling Western Manager James W. ("Sir James") Good for impresario, simply shook hands with every one, let them look at him, talk to him, ask him questions. A North Dakota contingent, led by Prohibition Administrator John N. Hagen, was assured that...
...Dwight Filley Davis be changed, in the near future, he would probably become not "Secretary of Peace" but "Secretary of the Science of National Defense." This observers deduced from the fact that President Calvin Coolidge said last week, at Wausau, Wis. (See National Affairs): "We cherish no sentiment of aggression. . . . But . . . for the Government [of the U.S.] to disregard the science of national defense would expose it to the contempt of its citizens at home and of the world abroad. It would be an attempt to evade bearing our share of the burdens of civilization...