Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress received the message with a paean of approval. Most common Congressional comment was that the President had "portrayed exactly U. S. sentiment" -that is. he did not propose forgiving the debts. Only Democratic objector of consequence was Virginia's Senator Glass: "I have always been in favor of radical adjustment of the War Debts. We sold munitions of war to the Allies at unconscionable prices. It is asked that our Allies make 'substantial sacrifices to meet these debts.' Already the British bear a burden of taxation so great that a Congressman who suggested it in this...
Once this year the subject of Hanfstaengl has aroused sentiment among Harvard alumni, when Dr. Cutler chose him as his side on Class Day. Immediately a storm of protest broke forth but Hanfstaengl settled the situation by stating that business would interfere with his trip to the United States...
While the CRIMSON has been cooperating with the Literary Digest to investigate the sentiment of Harvard, the Yale Daily News has been carrying on a similar plan at New Haven. There the results show the same trend in favor of the New Deal but are less decisive. The vote to date at Yale stands...
Hollywood Party (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) opens with Jimmy Durante as "Schnarzan the Great," burlesquing Johnny Weismuller in a scene with Lupe Velez (Mrs. Johnny Weismuller). Says Durante: "Beneath this here lion's cloth beats a heart that's seethin' with sentiment." Says Velez: "I'll bet you say that to every animal." Distressed, Durante uproots a tree, beats his chest, yodels through his nose. The picture also contains a plot in which Durante functions as an outdoor cinema star entertaining a visiting big game hunter (Jack Pearl). Durante hopes to use Pearl's lions...
...sentiment in California, and in the three Pacific States, after the three years of propaganda with ample resources, is sufficiently indicated by the fact that in January the entire California Congressional Delegation, 11 Democrats and 9 Republicans, signed a letter to President Roosevelt advising him that they were "vigorously opposed" to the proposed plan for opening the gates to Asiatic immigration, and within a few days thereafter the Delegations from Washington and Oregon signed a similar letter. Congressmen from three States do not unanimously take such action when they are facing re-election unless they know absolutely that the overwhelming...