Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite these two speeches and a tearful one by Chairman Campbell, long and loudly applauded, local sentiment against the merger seemed strong. Famed Dr. John ("Bonesetter") Reese, who by special dispensation of the Ohio Legislature does service to unjointed athletes (.TIME, July 12, 1926). let it be known that he had switched his 1,000 shares to vote against the sale, then entrained for Florida...
...were Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Beau Brummel. Mammy (Warner). It is strange but inescapably true that Al Jolson can sometimes make his kind of song-intrinsically tawdry though it is-sound like a folktune a thousand years old and that he can be funny as well as sentimental. Mammy is as silly as most other Jolson pictures. Irving Berlin, who wrote the tunes, wrote the story too-a backstage triangle with a "mother angle" thrown in to key up the sentiment. Jolson does a drunk scene and sings many times. The tunes are better than some of Berlin...
Whether men are drinking more or less today neither we nor anyone else can tell. But that Prohibition has lessened the ability of anyone to get a drink in communities, which have a strong sentiment in favor of drinking, we deny...
Tabulation of the CRIMSON's poll of University sentiment on prohibition shows that the Harvard Debating Council's plan for the repeal of enforcement legislation was sustained by a count of 873-868, and not defeated by a margin of five votes, as stated in yesterday's CRIMSON...
...distinctly wet tone of the National Collegiate Prohibition Poll establishes the first actual evidence of undergraduate sentiment on the Eighteenth Amendment. While the Poll is in no sense complete, it definitely replaces popular legend with statistics, at the same time presenting one entirely new aspect to the whole discussion of legal restrictions to drinking...