Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fatherland. He said he was not representing the government, and would account for what he said only to himself. But it strikes a responsive chord in many hearts in America, who look for individual breadth of mind to save the world. The German prelate joins himself in sentiment with the English nurse Cavell, who said before her execution tion : " Patriotism is not enough...
...that does not mean that Pa can lick Dempsey. For the past three years the crew squad has been composed of some of the best material in the east, and yet there have been no victories worth the name. Objection has, however, been quashed by the well meaning sentiment "Give them a chance." But opportunities have come and gone, and if affairs continue to take the same course there will this year be a reduplication of a situation that has become intolerable to everyone interested, and most of all to the crew men themselves...
...convention of the diocese of Boston last week passed a resolution demanding the entrance of the United States into the League of Nations-not as an expediency of partisan politics, but as a Christian duty to establish world peace. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington political correspondents, declares that church sentiment is making the League, once " dead," an issue which Mr. Harding and other candidates cannot afford to neglect...
...revolt against the growing use of the Morse code in literature is not, then, prompted by a feeling that the public is being cheated of worth-while sentiment. The English students objected (if they seriously objected at all) to the sloppy writing which permits a few dots to replace vivid language. Effective as the imagination may be the pantomime of snapping one's fingers can hardly rival a few hearty words in expressing vigorous emotion of any sort...
...character sketches. It is a fundamentally moral dissertation to prove that the world cannot be reformed overnight, and that common sense can usually conquer pure idealism. It is serious, emotional, dramatic, interesting. Perhaps it is too serious and too emotional--there is rather too much oratory, and the sentiment is a little too obvious. The author, like his hero, seems too much imbued with the spirit of romanticism to suit this twentieth century taste; but he does well in spite of his defects, and the acting carries the whole through to a happy conclusion...