Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Debating Council plan provides strict enforcement in every state where public sentiment wants and supports it, while it leaves the states untouched where public sentiment is opposed to enforcement, except in that it prohibits the operation of the saloon and favors the teaching of temperance...
Final results will not be made public until Thursday morning, when announcement will be made not only of prohibition sentiment at Harvard but also of the results of straw votes now being held at fourteen other colleges throughout the East, South, and Middle West...
...poll of campus sentiment toward prohibition conducted properly may do no good, but at its worst can do no harm. The Daily Student, however, will not attempt a poll on this campus unless the editors are assured that their fellow students desire to express an opinion on this great problem. --Indiana Daily Student...
...smashbang flaying of current liquor phenomena, contrasting the $882,727,114 paid as individual income tax in 1928 with a figure of $936,000,000, which Life said was the cost of Prohibition enforcement "and loss in revenue." Then Life made this proposition: if you agreed with its sentiments, please send at least $1 to "the Life War Chest." It was promised that "every penny thus received will be used by Life to buy similar publicity throughout the country." The astuteness of this proposition was at once apparent: by working on Prohibition sentiment, the magazine would literally get the public...
...John McCormack's first picture, the second feature talkie to be made by a first-rate singer (Lawrence Tibbett's Rogue Song was the first) was directed by Frank Borzage, a director whose specialty it is to lay over his interiors and landscapes a film of sentiment much like the tearful coloring with which John McCormack colors his celebrated upper register. In his customary manner, Mr. Borzage uses up a lot of film exhibiting the Irish village whence sprang the great ballad singer, the hero of the story. It is a badly integrated, inconclusive little story of frustrated...