Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hugh Cabot believes that teaching doctors should devote all their time to pedagogy, should eschew outside practice. The sentiment that a medical professor should be content to exchange a life of teaching with a moderate income for a career of practice with larger emoluments has grown, in the past few years, notably at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Yale, Chicago, and Columbia. But when introduced a the University of Michigan, the notion was not well received. Faculty friction resulted. The Board of Regents met, pondered the situation, decided to demote Dr. Cabot. He still retains his Surgery Professorship at Michigan where...
Furthermore, Calhoun's doctrine was able to cause civil war only because the controversy involved was of such a nature thatit divided the nation along clearly-defined regional lines, presenting in this way two violently opposed geographical entities. The present controversy, while sentiment may prevail one way or the other in different regions, is not fundamentally sectional in origin, and scarcely can operate to cause any well defined rift in the union. Civil war under these conditions then must necessarily be nothing more, than anarchy and chaos, rather than any conflict between two well organized factions. It is absurd...
...congressman since 1913, Chairman Graham has worked through the rise of Dry sentiment which resulted in the 18th Amendment. Looking back over his legislatice career, he could pick out these dates as most significant in the history of Fed eral Prohibition...
...Munro, an Englishman killed in the War) should, and anyone who has read him will do so again without any blurbs from the Vagabond. "Saki" is the entrepreneur between Englishmen and morals and a delighted audience. He is the epitome of sophisticated wit, a judicious mixture of cynicism and sentiment, and charming withal. His good-natured satire falls as lightly on milord and lady as on the foibles of the charwoman next door...
...Washington last week arrived a Filipino Commission headed by Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, to plead before Congress for the islands' immediate independence, to take advantage of this new economic, rather than moral, sentiment for their liberation...