Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...implicit charge of extravagance. He pointed out that it had reduced the President's own estimates of expenditures this year by $27,000,000, and last year by $23,000,000. Other Senators accused the President of being "unfamiliar with the facts" and trying to build up public sentiment against Congress, a charge often made during the sessions of the bickering 71st Congress...
...eruption of Mt. Momotombo, Nicaragua's proudest eminence (6,200 ft.), put a big fat question mark upon the idea of an interoceanic canal across that Central American republic, turned the tide of U. S. sentiment in favor of the Panamanian route. Last week's earthquake at Managua (see page 23) punctuated the same proposition, now revived, with another question mark no less...
...brilliant, but brilliantine. There is more justice in this stab when it is aimed at his earlier novels than at his latest, best book. Still brilliantined in spots, Men Dislike Women may surprise Arlenites by its compactness, comparative hardness, freedom from the brittle artificiality, the paste tears, the pasty sentiment that have made even Arlen enthusias's call Michael Arlen ephemeral...
...kulaks were exiled or shot because their very status made them at least tacitly anti-communistic in sentiment. Intellectuals were disposed of for being moderately socialistic or expressing doubts regarding the wisdom of the extreme measures of the Soviets. So we see that communist methods are political in aim, in spirit, and in method...
This proposal started the Democratic pot boiling. Drys thought their chairman was using his high office to crystallize Wet sentiment against them, to pledge the Democracy against Prohibition long in advance of the national convention. Tennessee's Dry Senator Cordell Hull began the pleading: "My God! The Democratic party has never had such an opportunity. Why take a lantern and search out something on which we can divide? Let us leave this question alone...