Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here are two logical demands sharply defined by idealism and practicality. But our editorial souls feel utmost repugnance at an attempt to mix the two, as recording in the Yale Daily News editorial. Well and good to divert popular sentiment toward debating, but not in this way. Spare the ancient art, and the renowned Websters and Burkes the humiliation of having their oratorical science debased by the introduction of frivolity. There is a definite place for a course or practice of round-table public discussion, a kind of glorified and intelligent bull-session on a specified subject, but there...
There is, of course, in Congress a considerable sentiment against the brain trust. The idea of putting into the government, men who have access to the White House from time to time, without reference to their superiors or other departments, is provoking much irritation. Naturally, Mrs. Roosevelt feels kindly to the group of men who have been responsible for some of the daring and aggressive policies of the New Deal, but the question is arising whether the time has not come to bring about discipline within the ranks of the government itself. Theoretically, Secretary Wallace, as a member...
Congress, therefore, instead of being radical and intent on inflation, is likely to have a considerable sound money sentiment which will wish to compel stabilization of the dollar. This is one of the reasons why it has been taken for granted outside the government for the last several days that Mr. Roosevelt would announce a stabilization policy before Congress assembled...
There is no sentiment in a bird's sex life. Most people think the male struts and flaunts his plumage to take the female's fancy. What he is really attempting is intimidation. So reported Cornell University's Ornithologist Arthur Augustus Allen to some 400 colleagues gathered in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History last week for the golden jubilee meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union...
...about Cambridge the sentiment seems to be that Harvard couldn't be as bad as it was against Army last year for two seasons in a row. There is hope in the college that has developed overnight, it seems, for the concensus of opinion after the Lehigh brush, was that Harvard must inevitably fall before the Army's vaunted attack. Advance season reports on the West Point team claimed that Gar Davidson was scheduled for some tough going if he wanted to whip the team into shape with only three returning regulars. He has done what seemed impossible...