Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sentiment in the Street has it that there is more to the proposed Stock Exchange Bill than meets the eye; that, in fact, Felix Frankfurter and the rest of the borers-from-within at Washington are trying to lay foundations for a bloodless revolution, a socialization of industry to be effected through strangulation of private outlets for capital...
...Hutchinson- not to be confused with Ray Coryton Hutchinson-made many a reader weep. The Unforgotten Prisoner should do likewise, but the tears will be of a better quality. Author Hutchinson has turned the difficult trick of writing a realistic modern romance, a contemporary story of strong but unmawkish sentiment, a poignantly sympathetic study of English and German victims of a war that did not make democracy safe...
Yale, however, in a somewhat omnipotent mood has found a way out, a way that is so simple that one wonders why no one thought of it before. Yale merely approached her alumni and suggested that if any of them had any money left, they might allow sentiment for old Eli to overcome them and contribute to a fund to be used in aiding undergraduates. The response was all that could be desired; Yale collected some two hundred thousand dollars, which makes it possible for her to give more aid to students than any other college, thus surpassing Harvard...
...appointing our Ambassador to the United States at this important time," said General Sadao Araki last December before he retired as Japan's sword-rattling War Minister, "with the 1936 crisis ahead, such considerations as dignity, past career, equity and sentiment must be discarded and a man of ability chosen in the interests of the country...
...club has sent letters to undergraduate political organizations in numerous colleges apprising them that the Senate at Washington doesn't seem eager to do anything about the political situation in Louisiana. Now is the time for all good men to applaud the sentiment which animates this pronunciamento. At the same time it may be regretted that the letter was not phrased with that strict regard for dignity and sobriety in expression which is to be expected from young gentlemen who attend classes in English at Harvard. It says, for instance...