Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philip Nolan was a shady horse dealer from Louisiana who was shot in 1801 by the Spaniards he had cheated. Edward Everett Hale was a Boston minister who helped whip up Union sentiment during the Civil War. When politicians like Clement Vallandigham of Ohio began to recommend separatism, Dr. Hale wrote The Man Without a Country as an object lesson. Dr. Hale named his hero Philip Nolan, built around him a story of treason and punishment so detailed that it sounded true. In the story Nolan is arrested for plotting with Aaron Burr to found a kingdom in the Southwest...
...Dreaming of the Loved Ones and The Detacher's Dog ("Oh where! Oh where! ish mine little dog gone?"). During the Civil War another song almost undid him. Lincoln removed General McClellan from command of the Army of the Potomac for being over cautious. Popular sentiment favored McClellan's reinstatement, caused "Sep" Winner to write Give Us Back Our Old Commander: Little Mac, the People's Pride. Copies of the song were confiscated; Winner was almost jailed for treason, but the song swept through the whole Union Army. In spite of the interdict, Julia Mortimer sang...
...should the U. S. try to rally other democracies? Why not let Europe severely alone? It cannot be done, says Editor Armstrong. U. S. sentiment is still strong for isolation, but it will have to learn better. "In a surge of reaction against all that they had been through in 1917-1918 the American people decided to learn nothing from that experience. . . . We are not yet in sight of the time when the great American public will see that there is one way, and one only, for them to make certain of not being involved in future world wars: that...
...calloused observers whose contacts with the French Talking films have been soured by themes of sentiment and artificiality, "Le Deuxieme Bureau," starting Thursday at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, will prove a genuine thriller, not by a little surpassing American pictures on the same subject...
...hours later his Committee astounded Washington by reporting out the Dies resolution for prompt House action. "I don't predict what action the House may take," said Speaker Bankhead, "but admittedly there is strong opposition to Sit-Down strikes on the part of the membership." That sentiment, if unchecked, promised the incredible spectacle of John L. Lewis following the path of bankers, stockbrokers and utilities magnates to a Congressional witness chair, there to have his inmost secrets exposed to public view...