Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although it lacks the high-powered sentiment that made Little Women one of the box-office hits of 1933, Anne of Green Gables would probably have been able to impress itself on the public without the aid of banal publicity tricks like the one whereby Dawn O'Day, the obscure actress who plays the lead, got a Los Angeles court to change her name to that of the heroine in the picture because "Anne Shirley has always been my favorite fiction character...
...been intimately associated with the Harvard Athletic Association for over three years, the letter you printed in Thursday's issue of the CRIMSON was perfectly ridiculous. The sentiment is typical of the crowd of graduates who cry out at the least sign of athletic weakness and jump on the bandwagon to try to oust the complete coaching staff and the whole personnel of the Association. It is also typical of the undergraduate who thinks that because he has paid his tuition fee and is enrolled as a member of the University he should be admitted free to all contests...
...yesterday expressed itself to be in favor of the formation of a House hockey league, whether or not a rink is made available by the University. Adolph W. Samborski '25, Instructor in Physical Education and Director of Intramural Athletics, suggested that the Council should find out how strong a sentiment there is among members of the Houses in favor of the proposition. "I would like to see a league formed," he said, "and I think that hockey would prove to be, except for squash, the most popular winter sport...
...currently 15 different newshawks situated in strategic sections of the U. S. Every week each "X" writes Managing Editor Charles Colebaugh of Collier's a breezy, detailed memorandum on business, politics, public sentiment in his section. The editors select three or four of the most interesting reports, have them mimeographed by a process which reproduces their exact original form (color of copy paper and typewriter ink, marginal notes, penciled corrections, etc.). To maintain the illusion of inside confidence, the scribbled initials of CC (Colebaugh), B (Editorial Director Thomas Hambly Beck) and WLC (Editor William Ludlow Chenery) appear...
Last week, with some sentiment and more sense of what makes news, Columbia Pictures gave Apple Annie one more Day. Annie was dressed in ruffled satin, her husband in his first dinner coat. In luxury they were buried...