Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little ashamed of seeing the United States bury its head in the sand while storms are brewing across the water, the President's proposal of joining the World Court has come as a bright ray of hope. The Republican Senators have turned their backs on the proposal. Public sentiment may, be next December, be strong enough to force Senatorial approval. In any case new senators, unskilled in the "art of doing nothing", will come into office to form a new legislative body. Meanwhile, of the old one: "We come to bury Congress, not to praise...
Many readers, no doubt, will miss the sentiment and sensationalism to which their newspapers have accustomed them. The "human-interest" not cannot be expected; gossip, opinion, personalities would all be out of place. But among those who are tired of searching through huge areas of filler and advertising for the solid kernel of fact, there exists a real need for "Time". If its sponsors remain content to satisfy this group, "Time" will perform a good service...
...some experts in sentiment it has seemed as irreverent thus to exhume with curiosity what was buried with honor as to disinter the bodies of the kings in Westminster Abbey. But, strangely enough, this prying into the past does not violate Egyptian tradition. The ancient faith released the spirit of the dead from the tomb after three thousand years; in the days of Martin Luther, then, the ghost of Pharaoh deserted the inner chamber, and only the mummy's empty shell remained...
...Washington. Last Monday the first of these was put on sale at Hodgenville, Kentucky, and the second at Springfield, Illinois, as a mark of honor for his birthplace and the town in which he lived at the time of his nomination for President. Thus did the post Office mingle sentiment with business...
...college sports. But, like Dean Briggs, we are eager-for the day when the athlete can be granted at least equal advantages with his fellows, without calling forth charges of professionalism. That day will come only when the very idea of professionalism is made unthinkable by the unanimous sentiment of students and alumni every where...