Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petrels of the American theatre. Wherever his plays are produced they serve to stimulate a great deal of discussion and controversy, while his lecture audiences are invariably divided among themselves in regard to his views. In general he has long been an advocate of a clean theatre and of sentiment and idealism in the drama. In upholding those views he has become involved in controversies which have made him a nationally known figure...
Other Cities, In Philadelphia, where a bad banking situation has existed since Bankers Trust Co. failed last December, a run began last week on some branches of Integrity Trust Co., with about $50,000,000 in deposits. Twelve Philadelphia institutions promptly pledged their aid. Within the next several days sentiment rapidly improved and it was evident that the storm had passed. Meanwhile, Secretary of Banking Dr. William D. Gordon obtained the cooperation of John A. McCarthy, officer of Real Estate Trust Co. to help liquidate three closed banks. He was licensed as a private banker. to buy certain assets from...
...constitution contains this belligerent sentiment: "A struggle is going on between the oppressors and the oppressed of all countries, a struggle between the Capitalist and the Laborer!" Labor has two means of struggling: 1) strikes; 2) using its political strength to force the enactment of favorable legislation...
...undergraduate, who plays the game, or watches it or refuses to watch it, is strangely apart from all this turmoil and controversy. The collegiate balloon of football sentiment has been pricked sometimes during the last decade and most of the hot air has leaked out, from his standpoint if not from that of the crowds. The charge of over emphasizing the sport cannot be laid at his door. At Harvard the days of torchlight parades, read flares, and mass meetings, outlived the mole-skin era in football pants, but not by long...
...President Lerroux's expression of the hope that the incident will soon be settled is just such a sentiment as has always concluded any pacifist meeting. That is all that the Council of the League has been able to do so far in the presence of events of exceptional gravity. What a fine peace organization that is!" Army Out of Hand? Meantime, the Japanese armies continued to hold Mukden. The Japanese Cabinet expressed itself as being very much embarrassed. That, apparently, was just what the militarist faction intended it should be. The Mukden affair seemed to boil down...