Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confirm Cuba's sovereignty over the island. Last week, it was up for consideration in the Senate. There were speeches for and against ratification. Senator Borah believed that the treaty must at least be modified. Senator Swanson of Virginia believed in ratification, and Senator Ralston, with old-time sentiment, exclaimed...
...sentiment which this international tactlessness created in Germany was the last straw that broke the Centrist's back! It is a mistake, however, to think that the present government is anti-French. It is controlled by business, and big business favors an economic alliance between French iron producers and German coal producers. The Socialists also favor friendship with France and other countries, on sentimental and internationalist lines, however, rather than on economic ones...
...drama department. The hurt university could do few wiser things than to employ Mr. Eaton to succeed Professor Baker as a tutor to the dramatists. As a critic he has many of the better attributes a knowledge of life and the theatre, a sense of humor, a touch of sentiment concerning the plays and players and an influential way of writing and talking. He is not too proud to have a boyish affection for what he calls the "glamour and delight" of Broadway, and he regards its shows and performances as an "endless adventure...
...Aside from the foregoing considerations, the deep-rooted sentiment of sympathy, gratitude and friendship consistently maintained by America for 70 years cannot permit Japan's feeling of good-will to be fundamentally affected...
...Somerset Maugham's play about a Eurasienne, who was shanghaied, in the city of that name, by a yellow gentleman with enormous talons and discomfiting eyes. Before that she had planned to marry a young Britisher (Edmund Lowe). Afterwards she married her rescuer (Rockcliffe Fellows). There are sentiment, sobs, horror, passiont close-ups-far east of Suez...