Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interpreter, however, translated it as, "There is nothing that displeases me as you do"-to which "Kitty" retorted acidly, "The sentiment is entirely reciprocated, Mr. Henry...
These front-page events of last week hardly stirred Emil Hurja at all. He calculates political pressure, not by the daily surge of press headlines, but by a dispassionate dipping into public sentiment far from the source of the immediate excitement. When Mr. Hurja looks in his black book, holding it close to his vest like a poker player, and says in a flat voice, "Roosevelt can lick Talmadge 4-to-1 in Florida," or "There is not a single Republican candidate who can carry his own state against Roosevelt," he is apt to be believed by non-partisan visitors...
Interesting point about Democrat Hurja's prediction about the South and West is that the Gallup poll, which at present is probably as accurate a sample of public sentiment as is available, appears to confirm it in general...
...scholars, or athletes, they give characteristic plays and have their own distinctive inner societies. These are the trimmings which make the House. Without them a House is just a place where a student hangs his hat, a dormitory of brick and mortar, characterless and colorless, where no tradition or sentiment can linger long...
...State, which were almost solidly against him, seven law firms were mustered by the nine publishers most affected to seek a permanent injunction restraining the State Public Accounts Supervisor from levying the tax. At the preliminary conferences to decide the legal strategy of combating the Louisiana tax, majority sentiment favored a fight along the line that the tax was discriminatory in that it applied to no "general class" of business. Up spoke the Item-Tribune's Deutsch in behalf of a broad-gauge contest for freedom of the press as guaranteed under the First Amendment. Lawyer Deutsch was permitted...