Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, as Mr. Hull dickered desperately with Argentina for his 23rd trade agreement, the 23rd tide of complaints rolled in. Cattlemen, dairymen, manufacturers squawked louder than ever before. Not only had Republicans whipped up anti-agreement sentiment throughout the Midwest, but New Dealers from agricultural States had pledged themselves to jerk away Mr. Hull's powers at the earliest opportunity...
...always told that it should pay great respect to Age and it always does, but inside it usually shrugs or maybe even sneers and if it does have a feeling of respect it is only because of an externally imposed habit and not because of an honest spontaneous sentiment. Usually, perhaps, but that was not so tonight. In these surroundings it was impossible not to feel something like awe for that figure slowly getting up to cut the cake...
...views of the three Presidential candidates closely followed the three resolutions in nature. Alan Gottlieb '41 came out against Russian aggression, and was elected President. David Fleischman '41 supported the Soviet, and G. Robert Stange '41 declared that the Union should refrain from expressing sentiment on either side...
Radcliffe sentiment was proven to have shifted back this year to a true appreciation of Harvard men as "escorts," "lovers," and "paramours," when the results of a poll on the respective merits of the swains of the Big Three colleges and M.I.T. were released yesterday afternoon...
...double sentiment which has moved Phi Beta Kappa to take this action is greatly to be praised. But the concrete turn which this sentiment has taken is rather questionable. Until a case of real suppression arises at Harvard, the Committee for Academic Freedom would serve no function but to cast aspersion upon Harvard's present-day tolerance in the eyes of the nation's liberal press. This is not a very worthwhile stake on which to gamble the position of aloof grandeur which PBK now occupies in the eyes of Harvard students...