Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhode Island: "I believe this evidences a distinct trend against some of the Roosevelt policies, especially the processing tax. ... It was not a protest against the local organization." Said Senator Walsh of Massachusetts: "The only explanation that occurs to me is that certain economic policies . . . had created a sentiment against the Administration, but I did not think it had reached such proportions. I feel sure the Administration will be able to adjust its policies...
...Wall Street Joe Robinson. Solmson's son is in the law firm that Robinson left when one member had the light turned on him when the State highway audit was made. Wall Street Joe has appointed all the old broken-down bankers and defeated and discredited politicians. National Sentiment in this Administration State is and strong much against the stronger against Wall Street Joe. He will have a real fight to be returned to the Senate. I have contacted people in 35 counties in the last week and have made discoveries...
Under the heading, "Crime, Price of Progress" in TIME, July 22, you record the story of two Negroes with frosted feet. There is the usual lack of insight in this story and the usual appeal to sentiment for the poor abused criminal. Both courts and publicists seem to have entirely overlooked the true philosophy and the correct attitude towards this class of criminal. To begin with, causation: I have had under my care in the past year three of these Negro types. All had frosted toes. This condition depending not on exposure so much as on the syphilitic disease...
...Barry or Admiral John Paul Jones should be immortalized on a new issue of stamps as the father of the U. S. Navy. He trotted over to the White House, put his hand into that of the "Boss," explained that he would be away for six weeks sounding political sentiment and shaking hands with postmasters from Washington to San Diego, to Honolulu, to Washington. ¶To the White House went a delegation of representatives bearing a petition signed by 242 members, pointing out that the great majority of the signers were Jews and Protestants. Responsive to the protests...
...ideals should be to make God's Acre a shrine of beauty. Gardens of memory are to me far more in keeping with the sentiment of our people than memorial parks...