Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Repeal. The popular vote to date stood: For-10,186,690; Against-3,213,440. Next State to vote was Maine which went Dry 75 years ago. The State Supreme Court had ruled that delegates must be chosen by counties, must sit as a deliberative assembly unbound by the sentiment of the State as reflected in its total popular vote. With no Wet or Dry labels on the ballots, voters were confronted with a maze of names from which they had to pick men who in the preceding campaign had indicated their position on the Repeal question. But most Maine...
Lady for a Day (Columbia) is a Broadway sob story, highly effective because in it sentiment is used mainly as a springboard for comedy. Its heroine is a quaintly incredible old woman who sells apples on a Manhattan corner, guzzles too much gin, and corresponds with her daughter, whom she is sending to a Spanish convent, on the stationery of an expensive hotel. Apple Annie (May Robson) finds herself in a dilemma when her daughter (Jean Parker) writes to say that she has become engaged to a young Spanish grandee and that she is bringing him and his father, Count...
...Saxon princelings followed not religion like the Egyptians, but sanitation and sentiment, which Christianity was obliged to salute as soon as the sensibilities of churchgoers objected to the smell of corporeal corruption within churches. The hearts of the Popes from Sixtus V (1590) to Benedict XV (1922) are in the church of Sts. Vincent & Anastasius in Rome...
...evry important item in the early history of Harvard College, and in a lesser sense today, has arisen out of grave problems of food supply and demand. This was of course a rash and heartless statement, based on a newspaper man's false notion that the world moves on sentiment and sensation. But before the writer pleads guilty of ignoring the "great underlying forces which have molded Harvard's glorious history" he would like to point out that, of Harvard, the Great Rebellion does not mean the War of Independence of 1775-1781, but the Rotten Cabbage...
...American isolation coupled with President Roosevelt's early enthusiasm for tariff reduction, seemed to betoken a return to a policy of low tariffs and Wilsonian internationalism. But if the Administration's ardor for the removal of trade barriers ever burned very strong, it has apparently cooled with a growing sentiment that the New Deal can best be achieved within a closed economic structure...