Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cheering section of Lincoln (Negro) urged on its team with a sentiment which was jubilantly re-echoed and even carried into active demonstration by a grandstand full of strutting rooters who, in iridescent habiliments, had come from miles around to see that college play Howard (Negro) in Philadelphia. Score: Lincoln 0, Howard...
...college or university present will nominate a representative to sit on the Findings Committee. The work of this committee will be to discuss proposals looking to the making permanent of some sort of student organization on international affairs, and it will also draw up a resolution covering the general sentiment shown in the discussion...
Whereas the melodramatic rapidly of the picture is forgivable, we cannot possibly pardon Mr. Griffith for those idle moments of sentimentality when he tried to make up for all the nasty things he thought about Abraham Lincoln during the making of "The Birth of a Nation." Not that we are against sentiment as a general rule--oh, dear no--but this was almost maudlin...
...every hand law violation obtrudes its hideous head and blatant voice. A wet press and unfriendly magazine writers wrongly charge to prohibition scores of crimes and deplorable conditions; in any locality petty violations of the prohibition law can be greatly minimized if local sentiment expresses itself in prompt, constructive community action against them, rather than dissipating its energies in passive bewailing and garbled gossip...
Elihu Root, Sir Campbell Stuart, expressed befitting sentiment. The moment for the actual dedication had come...