Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About the time Drys were joyfully celebrating the tenth anniversary of constitutional Prohibition last winter (TIME, Jan. 27) a new and uncharted groundswell of Wet sentiment became discernible to political mariners throughout the land. To many it seemed to be a distinct tide change. How high it would flow and what channels it would alter no man knew. Wet militancy increased. Prohibition speculation again became fashionable. A Senate investigating committee disclosed the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment as a husky adult organization, amply financed and operating with hopeful zest (TIME, April 28 et seq.). Under Wet pressure the House Judiciary...
...have been discouragingly large to Wets who could seem to make no appreciable headway in reducing them. This year, for the first time in a decade. Wets have made sufficient gain in the primaries, with more in prospect in the election, to feel that a turning tide of public sentiment is at last in their favor. Well aware are they cf the fact that their muster roll in the 72nd Congress will by no means be large enough to effect any sort of major change in Prohibition policy. But the eyes of their leaders are looking for results...
...making called Symphony In Two Flats, which has enjoyed a profitable London run. Although the author is no doubt aware that a symphony is properly a composition "of three or four movements contrasted in rhythm but related in tonality, having an organic unity of sentiment and style," the two divisions of Mr. Novello's drama are almost totally unrelated, autonomous. The only bond which the two sets of characters have is that their apartments are located in the same building...
There is another weakness in our body politic which deserves serious attention--it is what ex-President Hadley of Yale has called "the increasing demand for ill-considered legislation, and the increasing readiness of would be reformers to rely on authority rather than on public sentiment for securing their ends." Multitudes of well-meaning people have a feverish desire to reform everything and everybody by law. They seem to place some divine reliance in a statute. Once it is enacted, it is often forgotten or neglected in the zeal to enact another. As a nation we are suffering from over...
Obviously the canny Scot was testing public sentiment with a trial balloon, but he let it be said that he now favors enactment of a blanket 8% tariff on all imports, even foodstuffs and antiques...