Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime, the Honolulu Chamber of Commerce voted $5,000 to supplement the Territorial prosecution of the Kahahawai case. The Chamber is still pressing the case against the four remaining men whom Mrs. Massie identified as her assailants, but who have been at large (until public sentiment forced them voluntarily back to jail last week) ever since a jury failed to agree on their guilt last November...
...would not take the United States into the League, if I had the power to do so, until there is an informed and convinced majority sentiment in favor of that action in the United States. I am not in favor of a plank in the Democratic national platform urging our joining the League. I think it would be a great mistake to make a partisan issue of the matter. . . . Any opinion I entertain on the subject of America's relationship to the League of Nations must be recognized as merely an opinion such as any private citizen is entitled...
...police force." But Russia was not ready for war with Japan last week. There were 100,000 Russian citizens but no Soviet troops in Harbin. Its defense was left to a Chinese general. Ting Chao. with a force of 30,000 men. Moscow remained inert, but the prevailing sentiment that the goings-on at Shanghai were the prelude to more entangled international developments was expressed in a headline in the Pravda, semi-official Moscow news organ: "One against another and all against China." Reports filtered through via Berlin of a great massing of Soviet troops in Vladivostok. Two agricultural machinery...
Light and liltish, the Fishback verses are concerned with Manhattanmania's battle between nonchalance and sentiment. They differ from, quite as much as they resemble, the clickings of Ogden Nash or the bickerings of Dorothy Parker. Advertising experience flashes out in catchy titles ("No Traffic Tower to Guide Her," "Quake Well Before Losing"). The Macy influence is plainly visible in "The Fashion Copywriter Turns Nature Lover...
Mayor Curley, sensible of this deficiency, has made the keys to Boston more than a pretty sentiment. He has builded his key in three parts, which together make a gesture of hospitality; and severally, prove to be a corkscrew, a pencil, and a comb. These adjuncts begin their work where other keys leave off. The corkscrew takes its guest past the portals to the very bosom the city, the pencil enshrines names and telephone numbers in his address-book, and the comb wishes him God-speed the morning after...