Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...property confiscated from onetime Russian aristocrats, all of which the U. S. shoppers seemed eager to buy. They paid, according to Pravda, "more than $50,000 for confiscated property alone." Ever since the revolution the Soviet Government has been trying-and failing -to sell Tsarist property at its "sentimental value." European and U. S. jewelers have resolutely refused to buy sentiment, have mostly returned from Russia emptyhanded. It is well-known that the sale of the Russian Crown Jewels has been held up on this account. The next U. S. cruise ship, citizens of the Red State hope, may bring...
...Chairman Huston had no intention of going. He grew obstinate and defiant, insisted he would never "quit under fire." He proceeded to make long range plans for the fall campaign. President Hoover fortnight ago told him to his face that party sentiment demanded his retirement, but hesitated to ask for his resignation, lest Mr. Huston stubbornly refuse to give it and force a public issue with the White House...
...Blue and Moonless Night and Promises (Brunswick)-Saccharine sentiment spread out smoothly by Lloyd Huntley and his Isle o' Blues Orchestra...
There are two schools of Zionist economics. The school led by Chaim Weizmann, 55, and Louis Lipsky, 53 would send Jews to Palestine and there create work for them. The genesis of this school is in sentiment-to help Jews escape from poverty as well as political discrimination. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 73, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, heads the other school. He would create jobs in Palestine. Then let Jews migrate and find the jobs. This is rationalistic, the sort of plan one might expect from a Jew who is almost a Boston Brahmin...
...Rollin' Along and Dream Avenue (Brunswick)-Two good tunes wrung dry of wholesome sentiment by Harry Richman...