Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proved little, since in offering three alternatives, repeal, modification, and enforcement, no one received a majority of votes. Though the earlier Prohibition poll was inconclusive, the presidential poll of 1928 proved to be surprisingly accurate. The present questionnaire, offering only two choices, will probably decide with equal exactitude the sentiment of the American voters. Th large number of replies already counted show a decided wet majority in every state. Although the method of choosing voters prevented a completely typical cross-section, this result, as in 1928 indicates the belief of the American people...
...blase affectations of the socially ambitions are held up to the scorching ridicule of Mr. Powers' homely eloquence until they are babbled to cringing subjection by his irrepressible tongue, reenforced with frequent inhibitions of well-spiked punch. He offers an injection of wholesome common sense and good-humored sentiment as a panacea "for what ails the damned theatre," as he quaintly phrases...
Secretary Hurley: I'm the best friend the Philippines have got. . . . Every sentiment in my soul supports the idea that there should be no domination of man over...
...committee's desperate search for new sources of revenue to bridge this six-or-seven-hundred million dollar gap arose last week a new and striking sentiment in favor of some form...
...commercial relations with a nation which refuses to keep its word pledged in the treaty, is not a part of the national duty. Dr. Lowell's proposition, we fear, has in it a much more distinct purpose to make Uncle Sam the policeman of the universe than the sentiment of the American people will approve. If the League of Nations has proved itself impotent to carry out its own essential purposes, the condition is a justification of our decision not to join it rather than an incentive to such a course. --Boston Transcript...