Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...component elements of the New Deal, their merits and demerits in the minds of individual voters. Any consideration of details might have confused the balloters and obscured the purpose of the poll which was to distil, from a generous cross-section of the nation, a pure sample of American sentiment on the subject of the New Deal on the whole...
...country's leading educational institutions should affiliate themselves with a demonstration that is certain to awake no popular sympathy, seems remarkable to us, when so many avenues of propaganda and organized protest are open to them and would have proved vastly more effective in gaining public sentiment for their cause...
Adding to the ever increasing sentiment that would peace is doomed and that war clouds are gathering in European skies, Paul Hutchinson, managing editor of "The Christian Century," in an article entitled "The Collapse of Pacifism" sets forth the thesis that only the Protestant churches can effectively prevent war in the event of a critical situation arising. Mr. Hutchinson's analysis of the feeling prevalent throughout the world today is adequate but his assertion that only the Protestant clergy can form a nucleus for a pacifist opposition in the case of a threatened war is shallow since he falls...
...Physiologist Thomas Wilcox Haggard: "In this country 16,000 women give their lives every year in childbirth, and 10,000 of those deaths are needless. Meanwhile, we celebrate Mother's Day. How utterly typical of the worst of adolescent public opinion is that flower of commercialized sentiment. A rather shameful procedure that, a hypocritical gesture typical of a people who believe they can replace a deep obligation by a shallow sentimental flourish...
With these recent changes in mind it is difficult to imagine how Harvard expects to prepare its candidates for the Latin reading examination. The English department cannot be criticized in principle since Latin has more than a considerable bearing on the study of English. But the modern sentiment in education, disregarding its merit for the present, is definitely in the direction of a weakening of the hold of the classics. The new requirement of the English department is just as definite a step in the opposite direction and appearing at this time seems almost an anachronism...