Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dissatisfaction among negroes assumed a dangerous tinge in the negro labor convention at Chicago, which was shot through with communist sentiment. Every large industrial city is facing an increase in inter-racial unpleasantness due to overcrowding. In negro districts. In the midst of this gradually increasing tension, Mr. Darrow's speech can be interpreted as a hopeful incident in two ways: one, that his audience heard him quietly, and another, that dispassionate appraisal of the situation is still possible...
...from another, and the differences among their respective works are equally invisible. Yet somehow the great public discriminates, and the reception Mother got in 1911 marked Mrs. Norris as one of our elect. To her ability as a straightforward, reportorial storyteller, she seems to add a blend of sentiment that is highly popular. This story is about a large Irish-Catholic family in San Francisco-the mother praying and dreaming about her "little angels," the boys getting jobs, the girls getting married, the father trying to govern his family without assistance from the convent nuns...
...Majestic opens up in unpromising fashion. The Irish hero about to leave ould Ireland is disclosed sobbing lustily on his mother's shoulder, "Oh, mither, mither," while the old lady in turn sobs back, "Oh, me bye, me bye." In this strain of ripe old-fashioned Irish sentiment, the piece continues until the closing scene in which the two are reu- shakeup occurred in the line. Captain McMillan was the only man to remain a regular, and he was shifted to Crago's position at guard, with Bartell, who had been playing end early in the season, coming...
That was the only triumph the Crimson has scored in the last six contests with the Orange and Black. Two games were tied, and three have gone into the Princeton win column. But the sentiment of Harvard undergraduates seems to be that Saturday is another story. Princeton's record this year is not much more impressive than Harvard's, and the Crimson forces will invade New Jersey without over-confidence, but with a fighting spirit and determination...
...election of a lord rector by the students is quite another thing. The qualifications of the candidates are too well known to necessitate campaign oratory and tubthumping. Solemnity is banished and the vote is one of hearty sentiment, not unmixed with good British horseplay and ribaldry...