Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since 1926 with their relation to the present move. In that connection, it must be remembered that the function of athletic authorities is not to score diplomatic "points" nor to outwit rival authorities by subtle negotiation, but rather to arrange contests which as nearly as possible reflect the undergraduate sentiment in the institutions involved. Apparently Harvard and Princeton officials have decided in this instance to abandon the first theory in favor of the second and sounder...
...There has been a considerable change of sentiment on the part of a majority of the people with reference to Prohibition. . . . Congress may permit the manufacture and sale of any alcoholic liquor which may reasonably be said to be non-intoxicating in fact. Your committee believes that 3.2% beer is, on eminent authority, non-intoxicating in fact. . . . The alcohol is so diluted that it would require considerable effort on the part of an average person to drink enough to become drunk...
...donated his first group, "Checkers," two figures bending over a draughts board, one laughing, one glum. It was the hit of the fair. In New York he showed his next piece, an Abolitionist number entitled "The Slave Auction." No dealer would handle it because of the amount of Southern sentiment in the city, so Yankee Rogers found a colored boy with a wagon and hawked copies of his piece from door to door at $10 the copy. He did a land office business. From then on he never sold through dealers or art galleries. The Rogers Group...
...Student Council resolution condemning disturbances in the subway following hockey games at the Boston Garden has the unqualified endorsement of the College authorities. Through the publication of the resolution and of editorials in the CRIMSON it is hoped that there will be built up a public sentiment among the undergraduates which will put an end for all time to these unfortunate incidents. It should be clearly understood, however, that for the good of the College the Administrative Board will be forced to take drastic action in the case of any students definitely involved in such disturbances...
...follows her-not, as in the original story, because he has been converted, but for reasons of gallantry, which Director De Mille considered more affecting. As rewritten by Paramount's Scenarists Sidney Birchman and Waldemar Young, The Sign of the Cross is a Roman holiday of semi-civilized sentiment which is likely to redeem the $600,000 it cost, validate Director De Mille's dictum that no religious cinema has ever failed. Typical shot: Christians in a dungeon, waiting to be martyred, with a young and handsome female Christian under a beam of light in the centre...