Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a further and more important objection than these, however, to the very idea which the Poetry Room embodies. It stands for an artificial sentiment about poetry as a kind of writing which requires to be set off by itself and cradled in an arty setting of red velvet to distinguish it from its weaker brethren. In the atmosphere of the Woodberry Memorial, poetry becomes a minor specialty, with no discernible relationship to anything vital, but somehow valuable for sentimental associations. This is an attitude to which a great many people subscribe without feeling that a trip...
Pragmatically speaking, the incident is well calculated to consolidate national sentiment even more strongly than before in favor of the President elect. His will be a popularity which few men have lived to enjoy. If that popular esteem is ably combined with his great political power and buttressed by intelligent executive leadership, the country will have good reason to regard the event as singularly fortunate...
...death of Boston's youthful heavy-weight contender has called forth from the press an inevitable gush. Mawkish sentiment has become a characteristic of American journalistic expression; it helps to boost circulation. But beneath the columns of effusion one senses an occasional spark of sincerity. Schaaf played the game ably, cleanly, modestly...
Life insurance companies were rescuing the Iowa farmer from beneath his debt pile not because of charity or sentiment but because of hard economic necessity. All the companies asked was that the farmer stick by his land and pay something for the sake of appearances. Their concessions to him were widely regarded as the first major break on the front of private debts-a crumbling of moral obligations-to-pay which creditors have been stoutly maintaining through three hard years. Where the insurance companies led other big financial concerns were expected to follow. With most of them...
Their weekly Washington letter ($25 per year) is a careful reflection of Capital sentiment on fiscal questions, with pros & cons duly weighed. It is long on discussion, short on prediction. In general it takes a long-range view. A half-dozen staffmen maintain personal contacts on Capitol Hill and in. government departments. The letters are compiled in the Munsey Building...