Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Langdon, who was a classmate of Samuel Adams, and a good friend of John Hancock, was swept into the Harvard presidency on a wave of patriotic sentiment in 1774. But his popularity immediately waned. The new President believed in declaiming on the Scripture for ninety minutes or more at a time, Sunday mornings; soon he discovered this was not enough, and he cancelled the traditional Sunday evening singing services in order "to give more time for his harangue...
...theatres, hotels, restaurants, beauty parlors, etc. New York, Illinois and Ohio have long had such laws against Jim Crowism. Pennsylvania got one when Democratic Governor Earle took office (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). But nowhere, as most intelligent Negroes admit, art: such laws consistently enforced against the strong but silent sentiment of the White majority opposed to close social contact with Blacks. When a bumptious blackamoor attempts to invoke such a statute, he generally gets more publicity than social satisfaction...
...them good steers on other amusement investments. Joe Schenck later went to Holly wood where he married Norma Talmadge and headed United Artists for years. Nick Schenck stuck by Loew's, taking over when the founder died in 1927. For box-office results Nick Schenck likes his pictures sentimental. Once when a feature was submitted for his approval, he shook his head dolefully, pointed to his throat, remarked: "No lump." There was plenty of sentiment in last week's deal which would appeal to stock holders, whose approval must be obtained before any of the plans bear fruit...
...Republican Floor Leader of the House, said he, he had fought and defeated a bill legalizing the Klan. In 1926 he was elected Speaker of the House over Klan opposition. "In 1928 I ran for Governor. Although the Klan had practically passed out of existence, there was strong Klan sentiment in many of the counties and that defeated...
...trend of public opinion. The Gallup polls show a sharp nation-wide swing away from Roosevelt. In only seven States has there been a gain in his popularity. In the Middle West, the real battleground in this campaign, there has been a general subsidence in the pro-Roosevelt sentiment...