Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends. Voters are asked three questions: 1) Shall the 18th Amendment be repealed? 2) Shall the Volstead Act be modified? 3) Shall the State Dry law be repealed? On two previous Prohibition polls (1922, 1926), Illinois voted Wet two-to-one. Observers last week could detect no shift in sentiment this year toward Dryness. The Republican leaders at Springfield therefore framed a party plank pledging themselves to go Wet if the referendum should go Wet. Up rose Nominee McCormick to declare...
...Identical in sentiment was the statement of Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, director of hygiene of Life Extension Institute as he sailed from Manhattan last week: "Man has three outlets: intoxication, love and work. The chief American outlet is work. Through love man may gain leisure. It is a good check of both intoxication and work. It's not a bad idea to mix the three about even...
After presenting percentage figures to prove U. S. dominance, the bulletin continued: "On the other hand, we would seem, by the pessimistic sentiment prevailing, to have about1%, of the courage, three-fourths of 1% of the nerve, one-half of 1% of the force and power and one-quarter of 1% of the backbone of almost any other country?England, for instance?struggling along carrying gigantic debts and with millions of unemployed, without a murmur of complaint...
...been the necessary government support for the movement until the new, higher U. S. Tariff evoked talk of reprisals throughout Europe, direct reprisals in Italy and France. Last week's meeting found the European motor men nearer agreed, prepared to ride together on a favorable tide of public sentiment...
Author Wright, anticipating biased criticism from jealous critics, says: "They who pride themselves on being too sophisticated and worldly-wise to indulge in sentiment . . . will laugh with hard laughter . . . will say that Antonio Latour's story 13 sentimental bosh. . . . Well ... I make no claim to literary equality with these sophisticated gentry. But of this I am convinced: All normal men and women who have truly lived to have such emotional memories. . . . No, I have no illusions?I know that I am not so skilled in the art of writing as these proud, unemotional dealers in words. I am only more...