Word: sentimentalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Daily News-Chicago Tribune Syndicate worked out the formula (it was the late Captain Joe Patterson's) of a balanced comic page to lure readers: The Gumps for "gossip, realistic family life; Harold Teen, youth; Smitty, cute-kid stuff; Winnie Winkle, girls; Moon Mullins, burly laughter; Orphan Annie, sentiment . . . Dick Tracy, adventure and the fascination of the morbid and criminal; Terry, adventure of the most up-to-date, sophisticated type; Smilin' Jack, flying and sex; Gasoline Alley . . . life itself...
...centered about fullback Levi Jackson, who to date has failed to approach his 1946 form. Against the Orange and Black he carried the ball only once-that time for nine yards and a first down- and was otherwise restricted only to punting and defensive chores. There is a growing sentiment that this is his week, and the 45,000 Yale partisans that will be on hand tomorrow are praying for just that. The hale and hearty section of the backfield corps consists of quarterback Tex Furse, who has completed 55 of 90 passes for 625 yards this year, halfbacks Vandy...
...Council's frank partiality was justified to its satisfaction in the reasoning and documentation of its report. This stated that out of a poll of 2500 students had come 50.4 percent favoritism for a Student Activities Center and all but 1.8 percent sentiment in favor of the general principle of a "utilitarian" memorial, in opposition to something such as the embellishment to Memorial Church now leading the field...
With the here only a silent bit of fluff, an extremely light touch was needed lest the downy plot be brushed away. The touch provided fills the bill, for the writers stress the humor, underscore the sentiment, yet never lose the bird in the shuffle. By keeping their dramatic proportions constant, they maintain the credibility of the Pipit throughout--in fact, so important does he become that he assumes a par with the RAF: winged creatures all. Bird lovers everywhere, farmers or ornithologists, forget the War and join the Pipit's Cause; and the blood, sweat and tears shed...
...failed to find a single sentence concerning the interest of the Chinese people. China is in a bad spot all right, but still the people's sentiment against the U.S. foreign policy in the Far East for the last two years has clearly shown that any attempt to make China a colony run and operated by MacArthur Inc. is doomed to fail...