Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although they have not by any means covered the Yard, they feel that sufficient signatures have been gained to convince the Council that strong sentiment for abolition exists in the class...
Formerly headed by J. Raymond Walsh, ousted Harvard Economics instructor, the Cambridge Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, headed by the ousted Yale teacher, Jerome Davis, apparently represents public sentiment. Though agreeing with some of Mr. Conant's demands, it declared, in opposition, that the country needed more educated men. It said, also, that his proposal would not solve unemployment. And it concluded that, if the number of students were limited, democracy would speedily...
...Henry Ford can alter wages and prices at will, Franklin Roosevelt cannot. This made the President's whole statement rather iffy. Iffiest fact of it was his concluding sentiment: "If industries reduce wages this winter and spring they will be deliberately encouraging the withholding of buying-they will be fostering a downward spiral, and they will make it necessary for their Government to consider other means of creating purchasing power." The phrase "other means of creating purchasing power" could mean only one thing-spending. Realists in Washington felt morally sure last week that unless business picked...
Although too voceriferous and heedless of parliamentary form, America's little business men displayed in the recent Washington conference a shrewd understanding of government. In their report to the President, the tone of which, but not the sentiment, was modified by the Resolutions Committee and Secretary Roper, they showed that neither the depression, recession, nor world unrest has upset their balance and destroyed the American's most characteristic virtue: his common sense. Their suggestions, by no means perfect and complete, seem to crystallize public opinion as well as any other twenty-three remedial proposals have done...
When a group of students take on the task of voicing undergraduate sentiment, their powers for doing harm obviously exceed their capacity for doing good. Aided by the public's tendency to confuse the writings of a dozen men with the unanimous opinion of an undergraduate body, they win a larger following than perhaps they deserve. And if Benjamin Franklin could deplore the power of a grown man when he acquired "a Press, and a huge Pair of BLACKING BALLS," how much more dangerous are the caprices of irresponsible students. A thoughtless attack, a distortion of fact that may seem...