Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wilderness and made it safe for settlers and pioneers. . . . When President Harding was at Hoboken, watching the ships with the American dead come in from France, he uttered these momentous words: 'It must not be again.' That found an echo in the hearts of the people. But sentiment alone cannot carry us far. It suggests, but does not attain. It requires action if we are to fulfill that great declaration. The agencies charged with this are the armed forces...
...multitudinous activities of the society, indicates several tendencies, the most significant of which is the decrease of interest in social service work. It is questionable whether, as the report states, athletes are responsible for this condition; athletics, although a convenient sinner, cannot bear the brunt of every failure. Undergraduate sentiment is a more likely cause...
...Mother, says the Good Book. The film records some of the complexities incidental to obedience in a hierarchy of several generations including odd lots of fathers, mothers, in-laws, relations, offspring. The tribulations evoke all the sweet fortitude of the white-haired mother so dear to U. S. sentiment. Belle Bennett is as maternal as advertised...
...hostile criticism it attempts to justify its suppressive tendencies with the phrase "to prevent disagreement". It would deny to the Emerald the opportunity to exercise one of the prime functions of an undergraduate publication that of moulding opinion, granting it only the right of reflecting the popular sentiment of the "student leaders...
...natural therefore that some surprise be evoked by the Transcript's leading story last night, the head of which assured all readers that sentiment was turning against Sacco and vanzetti in their fight for a judicial review. Six letters, cited as examples of the turning tide are printed under the headline, the most characteristic one of which is from Mrs. Lucy P. Hayden of H. Wayne Street, Roxbury, who "urges the governor to refuse to extend any clemency to Sacco and Vanzetti. She says this expresses the opinion of all her acquaintances with whom she has talked...