Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general, the Institute's and Tsar Morgan's problems are two : how to defeat or placate temperance sentiment, how to stop bootlegging. In the grass roots States Dry sentiment has not only survived Repeal but gives signs of flourishing. In the 31 States which permit local option, Drys succeeded in promoting 3,000 referenda in 1936 and winning half of them. Last week the House of Representatives of Kansas, one of the seven States in which hard liquor is entirely prohibited, passed a bone-Dry law prohibiting beer, and the Women's Christian Temperance Union has launched...
...guests at the duchess' house party. Fay's gesture of tearing up the letter instead of using it for blackmail sharpens Author Lonsdale's point of showing that the British aristocracy could take lessons in morals from a sneak-thief. Good shot: William Powell-who hates sentiment and usually refuses to give it histrionic expression-saying farewell to Joan Crawford with tears in his eyes and a catch in his voice, both caused by the fact that he had a bad case of laryngitis when the scene was shot...
...mimeographed draft of the bill, signed his name to it and dropped it in the hopper. So doing he stole a march on other ardent New Dealers in Congress, most of whom were immensely pleased by the President's move. Newshawks who immediately made surveys of Congressional sentiment agreed that the bill would be passed without serious difficulty. Save for routine Republican objections, little criticism was voiced at the Capitol in the first 24 hours following the shock of its reception. Senator Robinson promised that it would receive "favorable consideration...
...sublimation of Gypsy passion and Teutonic sentiment. But Herr Lehar is also a businessman who runs a theatre in Vienna and takes seriously his affiliation with Rotary International. The great majority of his best scores were written more than a decade ago and this does not prevent him from selling them over & over along with inferior latter-day creations. That Frederika-a perfunctory, old-fashioned operetta about the life & loves of Goethe which was first produced seven years ago-does not come up to the stratospheric standards of such earlier Lehar work as The Merry Widow (1905), is a loss...
Three months old also, and far from ineffectual, was the Pacific Coast strike -with 240 ships and 40,000 men still idle, losing $7,000,000 a day - but five days after the eastern strike collapsed Longshoreman Harry Bridges, leader of the western strike, announced : "There is a growing sentiment in the rank and file for settlement and nothing can change it now." A peace vote in the unions was set for this week. No empty settlement will this be for the strikers, however. Tentative agreements gave the unions their demands for 1) control of the hiring halls which pick...