Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SENATOR LADD: "I have tried to represent the sentiment of the people of North Dakota. My conduct will not be changed one whit by any action by the Republican conference...
...ideals, patriotism varies from a noble devotion to a moral lunacy." Looms the House of Parliament: "The corruption of democracies proceeds directly from the fact that one class imposes the taxes and another class pays them. . . . Democracy is likely to perish through national bankruptcy. . . . Democracy means a victory of sentiment over reason." Glints Buckingham Palace: "When Christ said 'Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth,' He was thinking of the British Empire." At last the Abbey: "The Church burned Bruno and imprisoned Galileo. The Church has lived by its monopolies and conquered by its intolerance...
...Olympic Games are by no means the millenium; but neither are thy free for-all brawls. And the sooner these facts are realized, and sentiment and hysterical sensationalism done away with the better they will be able to function as it was intended they should...
...strong men of the states?they whose currents of popularity are stronger than the tide of public sentiment in a national election?are few and far between. In this election, they were two, with 500 miles between? Governor Al Smith in New York and Governor Vic Donahey in Ohio...
Neville Chamberlain: "He holds that the working-classes of the country are responsive to the imperial sentiment. The imperial relationship, he will tell you, is as real to the poor man as to the rich. The poor man may not have the same exalted vision of the imperial destiny as the educated and the traveled man, but he does feel in his blood that the British Empire is something to be proud of. . . . He is a social reformer. He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist. He believes that every...