Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treaty of Versailles. In 1919 he lost his seat as Deputy, quarreled with some of his Socialist colleagues, remained friendly with others and is said to have been briefly enrolled at one time as both a Socialist and a Communist, not being sure which way the cat of popular sentiment would jump...
...Dwight Fillcy Davis. Governor General of the Philippines, called upon President Hoover, disappointed political prophets by failing to announce his resignation. Mr. Davis is on leave "to familiarize myself with United States sentiment on the Philippines." After Christmas he goes to Paris to visit his invalid wife...
...leisure moment General Honjo himself favored U. S. correspondents with this Yuletide sentiment: "Manchuria is now a frozen and unhappy land, in the grip of winter and in the depths of woe. But you have a phrase in English-'If winter comes, can spring be far behind?'. The actuating motive of Japanese policy is to bring genuine spring back to this frozen land...
...books and pamphlets were all given to Miss Lowell by Lindsay several years ago, and contain some of the poet's veraes, written in his own hand to Miss Lowell. The sentiments expressed in these writings give an excellent clue to the thoughts and feelings of the late poet, who used to go about the country, side dressed up as a mediaevel bard. He wrote a little treatise entitled "Rhymes to be traded for broad" for use on such occasions, which is one of the group on view. Also in the exhibition are some lines written to Miss Lowell, entitled...
...Next to food and clothing, the housing of a nation is its most vital problem. . . . The sentiment for home ownership is embedded in the American heart [of] millions of people who dwell in tenements, apartments and rented rows of solid brick. . . . This aspiration penetrates the heart of our national wellbeing. It makes for happier married life. It makes for better children. It makes for courage to meet the battle of life. . . . There is a wide distinction between homes and mere housing. Those immortal ballads, 'Home, Sweet Home,' 'My Old Kentucky Home' and 'The Little Grey...