Word: sentimentalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Padilla was also banking on the sentiment for democracy that was in the postwar air of the hemisphere. In recent months both Cuba and Peru had chosen their Presidents in free, apparently honest elections. Now Brazil showed signs of switching from the corporate state to a more democratic setup. Perhaps Mexico would get the idea-and if it got the idea, maybe Padilla would be its choice...
Gags & Secret Arrests. The state of siege was born nine days after Pearl Harbor. Argentina's late President Ramon S. Castillo, deciding on "prudent neutrality," needed gags to still pro-Allied sentiment. He muffled the press, banned most political activity and public assembly...
Last week another visitor to Kalamazoo (pop. 54,097) expressed Poet Carl Sandburg's sentiment even more succinctly. He was 16-year-old Herbert Flam, cocky Crown Prince of Tennis. After looking over the field in the National Junior Championships, he said: "I've seen better...
With the war's end (seven of his students are in the Navy), and the South's gradual economic liberation from the North, Hudson Strode predicts a great regional renascence. For, he declares, "there is more passion, more sentiment, more grace, and more variety in the South than in any other section of the nation...
...whimsical Yorick of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey, the Rev. Laurence Sterne became one of the greatest professional charmers in English letters. The consumptive parson himself was more interesting than charming. So violently attracted to women that he could hardly focus his emotions on any one of them, he clothed his writing in delicate salacity, his love-making in delicate sentiment. Mr. Quennell sums up A Sentimental Journey as "a textbook on feeling"; but its author eludes...