Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actual words of M. Laval were a dexterous triple flirtation with 1) French pro-League sentiment, 2) the British Government and 3) Benito Mussolini. First he safely trumpeted: "The doctrine of collective security . . . remains and will remain the doctrine of France! The [League] Covenant endures as our international law!" Then, in a little noted passage, he said: "On Jan. 7 last, Premier Benito Mussolini and I, not only in the interests of our two countries but also for the peace of Europe, definitely settled all those things which might be able to divide us. . . . I have neglected nothing to prevent...
...silly prudery when I voice my feelings here," the letter concluded. "It is as if the flower of the youthful mind and sentiment were being killed off by . . . sledgehammer blows. . . . Girls are told they must marry as early as possible. . . . They are also told that every fourth man is diseased...
...Barbara Hutton). Grumped he: "There's an expressionless young woman who inherited $50,000,000 and now rushes about gathering titles, good or bad, with the speed of an antelope. She does her country no good and spends her money abroad. The result is a strong tax-the-rich sentiment that we're all going to suffer from if we've piled up a little money...
...after event which slowly and inexorably sucked the greatest democracy on earth into the earth's greatest malestrom. He spares no one; he has no respect for war-time idols, for figureheads thrown up by the War and still maintained in an anomalous position by a public torn between sentiment and disillusionment...
Doves & Lambs v. Lions & Tigers- As usual Hero Streicher had prepared no speech, indulged in some extemporaneous lush German sentiment: "The other day at the zoo I saw some German children watching the play of doves and lambs. Their faces were radiant with happiness. Then I saw some Jewish children and their Jewish teachers. They had eyes only for the beasts of prey, lions and tigers and the slinking lynx! Why? Because blood calls to blood! For thousands of years the Jews have lived by preying upon other people...