Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That while the strike was brewing public sentiment was divided, but as soon as the strike took place sentiment shifted abruptly against the police, and that then, only when he saw the trend of public feeling, did Governor Coolidge act. The facts seem to bear out in certainty only one part of these charges -that Governor Coolidge had no part in quelling the disorder of the strike. The most reliable account of the strike available is the report of a committee of citizens appointed by Mayor Peters of Boston before the strike took place. Its report was not made public...
Ripples of humor, snatches of sentiment are shrewdly set off against two scenes of primitive brutality: 1) a bare-knuckle fight between The Hoboken Terror and Bully Boy Brewster; 2) a whipping post episode where Patricia, under the curling lash, breaks down and repudiates her masculine pretense...
...country because of the demands that President McKinley was making for Cuban autonomy. The people in the city were many of them hostile to the revolution going on in the outlying districts. On a Sunday Captain Sigsbee and the American Consul General attended a bull fight to discover popular sentiment. Soldiers guarded their box. The situation was tense. On the 15th of February, after the Maine had been in port about two weeks, the Spanish authorities asked the Consul General to have the Maine depart, because if she remained disorders might result. The Consul General cabled the information to Washington...
...according to the report of the investigating committee of the American Bar Association) has more crimes than the entire Dominion of Canada, has never executed a woman. The two sentences come a few months after the infliction of the death penalty in England, and it is noteworthy that public sentiment does not appear to protest...
...Alich, of Paris, is the latest biologist to attempt a solution to the riddle of sex determination, which has attracted inquisitive minds since antiquity. The hope of using such knowledge consciously to control the sex of offspring for practical breeding purposes as well as sentiment, has perhaps moved them most. But while few geneticists are willing to make any predictions about such possibilities, many foremost investigators are working to reveal the actual mechanics of the sex causation process. Not less than 500 theories-the majority fanciful old wives' tales based on no laboratory investigation of living material-have been...