Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost universal protest directed against Alabaman jurisdiction has been based on a number of beliefs and sympathies, but the one outstanding sentiment has been that the Scottsboro boys have not been granted fair trials. As in the Mooney case, it is a question of procedure and not of innocence. It has been evident to all those who have given even a slight inspection to the affair that in the trials at Scottaboro and Docatur the jurors were subject to an overwhelming prejudicial influence, which rendered their decisions far from impartial. At times the prisoners had to be protected...
...spending the last few days of a seven-week vacation when he received a cablegram from his subordinate, Auxiliary Bishop John J. Dunn. Bishop Dunn sought his superior's approval of a plan: for the New York archdiocese to seize upon and dramatize President Roosevelt's inaugural sentiment, "When there is no vision the people perish." A mass meeting would be held on Passion Sunday (April 2) at Rockefeller Center. An honorary committee of the familiar Catholic-Protestant-Jew type would be arranged (Morgan J. O'Brien, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Henry Morgenthau). Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...Brown staid as usual, will discover the Herald innocuous and its stand carefully circumscribed. But the whole affair is a singularly unfortunate commentary on the status of American undergraduate opinion in the councils of the mature judgment. It is eminently bad taste to couch a private albeit a worthy sentiment in the form of a public petition. It is deplorable that the American undergraduate press, as the sole method of expressing undergraduate opinion to the public, should have so abused its position that intelligent citizens justly regard its forays into fields beyond its usual ken as brainstorms, commercial in purpose...
...that of April 21, which are likely to lead to consequences far more serious than anticipated, which are of great annoyance to the public and to the city authorities, and which bring discredit upon the College can be avoided only by developing among the undergraduates a strong public sentiment against such conduct...
Michael Arlen, who was not born yesterday, is sensitive to the shifts and veerings of popular sentiment. With the barometer dropping and economic-colored clouds massing in the sky, he needs no plebiscite to tell him that ladies in green hats had better come in out of the rain. In Man's Mortality there is not one perfumed whiff of Mayfair or Park Avenue; like a young H. G. Wells and without a backward glance Author Arlen has soared into the world of the future...