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Word: sentimentality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many good people who have all their lives been governed by the polity of this resonant sentiment were amazed at the impotent efforts of that angry septuagenarian, Viscount Gladstone, and his elder brother, Henry N. Gladstone, to refute the slurs cast upon the name of the celebrated statesman, their late father, by "an insolent varlet, a professional mud-spatterer, a cowardly bootlicker" named Captain Peter Wright in his recent book, Portraits and Criticisms (TIME, Aug. 3, COMMONWEALTH). "Why don't they sue the stinking reptile?" such people have exclaimed in the vehemence of their sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: De Mortuis | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

...strange as it was surprising.† King Friedrich Augustus ascended the Saxon throne in 1904 on the death of his father, King George. He is possessed of an anemic personality and a presence far from inspiring, which accounts in no small degree for the alleged lack of Monarchist sentiment in Saxony. It is said that on one occasion, when he was standing in uniform upon a station platform, a lady asked him to move her trunk. He replied suavely: "Madam, I am not a porter; I only look like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: In Saxony | 8/10/1925 | See Source »

...President's secretary received, among messages of equal importance, a telegram from Mrs. Ella O. Guilford of the Women's Peace Union denouncing "theatrical advertising in which the sentiment of womanhood Was outrageously exploited for the sake of the Ziegfelds." A group of chorus girls from Ziegfeld's Louie the 14th had danced "the Charleston" on the steps of the City Hall in Manhattan in the interests of a recruiting drive for the U. S. Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Aug. 3, 1925 | 8/3/1925 | See Source »

...resignation of Miss Georgia Hopley, whom the crusader had brought with him from Ohio. Miss Hopley's resignation was demanded because she was receiving a salary of $2,500 a year and expenses for going among women's organizations and with a silver tongue creating a sentiment for Prohibition enforcement. Previously, Secretary Mellon and Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair had indicated that, although they had no objections to Miss Hopley, they did not believe her job had any place in the department. Last April, Mr. Blair insisted that Miss Hopley resign. Her resignation was not forthcoming. But when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Aut Vox, aut Vis | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...ordinary paper wanted to say "Don't park your car on the lawn" it would say just that. However, the "Wow" is no ordinary paper. It expresses the aforesaid sentiment as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gales Ferry "Wow", Daily Publication of Eli Crew Camp, Dedicates Itself to Grass Protection and Local Gossip | 6/12/1925 | See Source »

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