Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strength of white public sentiment against Negro participation...
...William S. Culbertson, U. S. Tariff Commissioner, presided over sessions on International Finance, read a letter to the Institute from Congressman Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, a member of the U. S. Debt-Funding Commission. Said Mr. Burton: "The sentiment of the people of the U. S. is overwhelmingly against release of the so-called foreign debts...
...coming barrage of political bombast and fustian may chill the somewhat delicate bloom of trade and industrial sentiment. Indeed the stock market seems to reflect such an occurrence. Yet the country has survived many major political campaigns, and probably will manage to this year, too. Meanwhile prospects for better business are extraordinarily bright and pronounced, while current business for the most part is extraordinarily dull and unsatisfactory...
...remarkable change in sentiment regarding business has taken place during the last six weeks. For a time everyone was pessimistic about everything. Next agriculture, chain stores, electrical equipments and utility enterprises took heart. Money declined. The foreign situation brightened. The political nominations were assuring. Even the industrials, which are not yet out of the woods, took heart. Now the average individual is becoming optimistic about everything...
These emotional swings in business sentiment must be rather carefully discounted by the conservative student of affairs. In business, as elsewhere, there is no perfect Heaven nor any utter Hell. The worst situation has some promise in it, while there is always something seriously the matter with every "period of prosperity," even from the beginning. The developments of the past two months are quite generally encouraging, yet common sense is still needed to counterbalance the fervid rhetoric of the revivalist school of business prophets...