Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americans do not mix business with sentiment. They do not admit that balance sheets can be established with blood and ink, that a balance can be established between ledger columns with, on the one hand, gold ingots and, on the other hand, corpses...
Among the vile epithets applied to Bolshevism perhaps the most odious is "International". The "Reds" are supposed to violate every feeling of national unity and to eradicate from their breasts every patriotic sentiment. Of this experiment of the arch anti-Bolshevists there can be but one explanation: the Fascists have turned missionaries. The world must be made safe for the new gospel of arrogant bourgeois nationalism. A cohort of eloquent gesticulators will be dispatched throughout Europe, and behold! the new era. When the whole continent turns Fascist, the international problem will be dead, and internal affairs will run like...
Once again the question of the relations of England with her colonies is focussed. A clash of interests, political and economic, undoubtedly tends, to break off the outlying parts of the Empire from the home-country. Sentiment is lauded on all hands as the binding tie. But as later generations lose the memory of the old country, will sentiment continue to prevail? When the differences in outlook and needs, already recognized, grow stronger than the bonds of affection, dissolution of the Empire will become inevitable. Meanwhile, the world can only wait and wonder which force will pull more strongly: sentiment...
While architects have been busy finishing their plans for the proposed hotel on the corner of Holyoke and Mount Auburn Streets, hostile sentiment in the University has been growing. Yesterday Mr. C. A. Coolidge '81, Chairman of the University Planning Board released to the CRIMSON a chart of the future grouping of Harvard's buildings, showing how a hotel on the old church site will mar these plans...
...that sentiment seems to favor such a scheme. Memorial was built in memory of brave warriors. What is more fitting than that it should be used by people to whom war and fighting are so much at heart as the Irish...