Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Working overtime to smooth down bristling anti-French sentiment in the U. S., the French Foreign Office decided last week that better phraseology might help. From the French point of view, Paris grammarians solemnly pointed out, there are three major kinds of written English: 1) literal translations from French into what barely passes for English; 2) British English which is objectionable to many U. S. citizens; and 3) U. S. English which, all things considered, seems best for use on Americans...
President Hoover's soft-voiced pleas to purge the pension rolls fell on deaf ears at the Capitol. Special Congressional committees investigated only to report disagreement and deadlock. The National Economy League took the field in response to widespread sentiment against nonmilitary disability allowances. But the thumbscrew tactics of the veterans' lobbies blocked all legislative action...
...Jovian man who for 25 years has sat in a musty back office guiding the affairs of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company, was given a party this week. His 200 singers sang for him. Oldtime Metropolitan stars returned to the stage to honor him.* Swayed by the wholehearted sentiment which opera-folk thrive on, the house fairly shook with shouts when the Metropolitan ballet shaped itself into a giant birthday cake, held up 25 candles. From his grandtier box Mr. Gatti gravely gave the Italian salute but no amount of persuasion would bring him to the stage from which...
...faculty of this University have no vote in the election of a president. It is customary for the Board of Trustees to ascertain faculty sentiment, and in the case of Professor Chase's election, faculty sentiment undoubtedly played some part, but the faculty voted neither for nor against...
Said the Most Rev. William Temple, Archbishop of York: "For some reason which I think perfectly idiotic, there is a special sentiment against hanging women. I do wish the women of England would rise up and protest. I think it is a horrible insult to them. They ought to resent it with ferocity...