Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel M. Vauclain, President of the Baldwin Locomotive Works: "In a public meeting in the office of the Mayor of Philadelphia, sentiment was overwhelmingly opposed to making the proposed Sesqui -Centennial Exposition (in Philadelphia, 1926) an exhibition of international proportions. The vote was 403 to 43. Opposition to the international project was led by E. T. Stotesbury and myself. The fair will therefore be held exclusively under the auspices of Philadelphia...
Henry Ford. The Michigander is coquetting so long with all Parties, and all platforms, without announcing his affections, that there is danger of all state delegations becoming wedded to other candidates, and his entire boom turning into a strange, new form of automobile advertising. Nevertheless there is strong sentiment for him in the West. The chief supporters of his boom, so far, are, however, only the dilletant politicians, gentlemen without much electoral potency...
Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: " On Saturday, Nov. 24, a day of football games?Syracuse vs. Nebraska, Army vs. Navy, Yale vs. Harvard?I broadcasted the follow-ing sentiment throughout the country through the medium of the Hearst newspapers: 'Hard at work in some office, or factory, on some farm, or in some department store are young men that later will push a button summoning today's football heroes to their orders...
Senator Walsh, in his address before the Liberal Club, reported on another page of this issue, diagnosed to some extent the present political condition of the country. For years the sentiment of the country has wavered between the Republican party and the Democratic party from election to election. Inchoate dissatisfaction against one has thrown the other into power, while revolt against both has sporadicaly brought about the election of a third-party candidate. Such revolt dates farther back than the recent election to Congress of Magnus Johnson in Minnesota, even farther than 1891, when James B. Weaver was presidential candidate...
Richmond is a town flowing with charm and sentiment. Last week the Confederate flag was flying on Monument Avenue, and the town was alive with scoldings and whisperings. John Drinkwater's Robert E. Lee had just played to generous audiences in the capital of the South, and the tumult and the shouting had not died. Protests came. Lee had not been so stout. His beard was silky. It was not bristly. Historical events were not thus and so. In the midst of this fluttering and chittering, I sought out the lovely old frame house where Ellen Glasgow lives...