Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a horseman rides a great distance and receives warm welcome at the end, he usually supervises in person the care that is bestowed upon his animal. When aviators fly across an ocean, however, not quite the same sentiment attaches to the mechanical contrivance by means of which the trick was turned...
...sentiment at New Lecture Hall was undoubtedly pro-Smith, as the presidential poll early in the spring indicated; but the sudden acquisition of strength to Baker, comparable as an opposition candidate to McAdoo in 1924, brought matters to an impasse. Once again, the balance swung between Smith and his rival; once again the desperate efforts of proselyting delegates failed to bring victory to the Governor; once again a tired assemblage decided on a third candidate, and somewhat uncertainly united the two combatting factions...
...Hoover camp, a Problem arose. Should the Candidate, who still is director of the Belgian Relief Commission, go to Belgium to dedicate the restored Louvain Library on July 4? Sentiment, of course, said Yes. But perhaps politics would dictate No. If Hoover should be nominated in June, what about the German vote in November...
...that is politics in the State of Illinois there issued last week a frabjous thing that was supposed to spell R-e-f-o-r-m but which, upon closest inspection, would not come any closer to real sense than Roefmr or Mrrofe. The letters were all there. Popular sentiment had been convulsively aroused. But the newly upheaved anagram did not articulate intelligently...
...violated in a good many sections of the country and ineffectively enforced," he remarked, "I am still convinced that it has been of inestimable value. Moreover," the foremost dry advocate in the Democratic ranks stated, "It may be of interest to you to know that there is no appreciable sentiment in Congress that promises any recession whatever from the policy of the Eighteenth Amendment...