Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe the newspapers could create the right sort of sentiment so that nearly every yacht would be placed in commission this year, thus creating more work all around. We would not have sailors looking for work, there would be more paint, oil and gasoline, food and other ship's supplies purchased. If yachtsmen could only be assured that it is their duty at this time to keep their yachts in commission, it would help the general situation which all of us are trying to relieve...
...through all the years of his faithful service to Harvard men. He has felt proud because of them, he has cherished them highly. In his heart he modestly feels the indebtedness that is owed him but it is hardly ever that he risks making known this innner sentiment. Hence it is that he was highly incensed this morning when he read the false accusations that were made against him in a certain journal. His afore mentioned scruples forbid him even to mention the name of his maligner. He will jest let that go. The statements concerning his running a "racket...
...smoke, the national Press has ignored it. Investigation finds several points of friction causing the smoke. Under the regime of Conservative Governor Fred R. Zimmerman, Dr. Frank vexed Wisconsin Liberals by refusing to permit Dora (Mrs. Bertrand) Russell to lecture on Companionate Marriage. Also against strong Liberal sentiment, he got a $350,-ooo gift from the Rockefeller Foundation. The Experimental College which Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn was imported to develop has been flayed for lack of discipline. And there are other minor issues. But, chiefly, personalities are involved. Many a La Follettite views with suspicion the big industrialists whom Dr. Frank...
...Sentiment however, is hardly becoming to the stores whose windows soreness out their bargains with such expressions as "Remember your mother with a pound of candy at a specially reduced price, or else send a box of pansies--for only 35 cents". Other national days and weeks are usually perfectly innocuous or mildly amusing. Mothers' Day, obviously invented merely to capitalize the feelings of a sentimental populace, is manifestly distasteful to those who have respect, as well as love, for their mothers. The annual custom of Mothers' Day is one the date and very existence of which are annually forgotten...
Harvard in 1917 rose above war sentiment to dedicate the Germanic museum. Now she has passed by her greatest opportunity to make a second international gesture; to lead the way in America to a better understanding of the change in thought that has come about since the World War. The chapel will hardly be a memorial, either to Harvard men or to any cause for which they fought. It will rather be a memorial to the conservatism that at one time dominated an otherwise liberal and fair-minded Harvard...