Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Politics to Come. Several Republicans who voted for the Court did so with trembling tongues, fearing what the irreconcilables may do to them in the next election if such men as Senator Borah carry the fight into states where pro-Court and anti-Court sentiment is nearly equal. Several members of the 17 threaten to do so, but the arguments of the opposition furnish ready-made ammunition to the outs who want to get into places of the pro-Court Senators. At the last minute before the vote, Senator Hiram Johnson exclaimed...
...There was an historic day in this body on March 19, 1920, when a raging press representing international bankers, some representing internationalists, others representing perhaps an emotion and a sentiment, thundered at the doors of the Senate and demanded the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles and the adoption of the League of Nations...
Throw out the life line, Throw out the life line, Someone is drifting away. Throw out the life line, Throw out the life line, Someone is sinking today; then found themselves refreshed in body with the chest exercise and in soul with the sentiment, they would wonder about famed Mr. Anonymous, the author so far as they knew. Last week the Boston Globe disclosed the man, pushed him to the fore, named him as the septuagenarian Rev. Edward S. Ufford...
...recent action of the University in granting Seniors greater freedom in course attendance marks a significant step forward in American university education is the practically unanimous opinion of other Eastern colleges. Their opinions, expressed in the editorial columns of the college newspapers, have almost without exception agreed with the sentiment of critics in metropolitan papers...
...Reichenbach concludes that Barnum was right, perhaps Hamilton also. He couches his sentiment in the following plebeian idioms: "This and my other experiences as an engineer of publicity have convinced me that the axis of the earth is lubricated with banana oil and that the world thrives on applesauce...