Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disregarding the fact that few dying men have strength or inclination to call for music, playing on the sentiment that the ideal exit would be made to the strains of some great composer, The Etude, music magazine whose appeal is usually more pedagogic than popular, last week published answers to a questionnaire sent out to various U. S. heroes asking what music they would choose to have played if they had only a few hours to live. Other choices...
...Representative Mary Teresa Norton of New Jersey. (Her only son died.) "The gross obscenity of a pamphlet written by a woman in Brooklyn*is so shocking that if I were not controlled by Christian sentiment, I would feel like shooting a man who would hand such a pamphlet to one of my four daughters. [Doctors] have been able to give such advice as was necessary to their patients and would continue...
Mutterliebe, Heimatsklange, Gretel und Liesel (German Independent Companies). In cities like Manhattan, St. Louis, Chicago, the German population is large enough to give capacity business to the little theatres which show such all-German pictures as these. Mutterliebe is a story of mother-love overlaid with Teutonic sentiment but built with less logic than most German stories; it tells of a woman so anxious to give mother love that she kidnaps a little girl. Heimatsklänge is a travelog showing pretty views of Rotenburg, Dinkelsbühl, Wertheim, and Fussen; it is synchronized with German folk music. Gretel...
Cabled a London correspondent: ". . . The affair has had a depressing effect on financial sentiment...
Recent expressions in Cambridge and in Princeton of an undergraduate sentiment favoring resumption of relations in all sports except football have grown so strong as to remove all doubts as to the attitude of the two student bodies towards each other. It is clear that the officials have acted wisely in no longer allowing football to dominate the issue and prohibit all other sports...