Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other speakers tried to add to Mayor Thompson's testimony about the flood. They were there, as he had shouted, "to crystallize sentiment." But Chairman Reid's "hearing" resolved itself into little more than roos-ter-boostering for Mayor Thompson...
...interpretation of the importance of news, the editors have tried to establish a proper sense of values; in their editorial comments they have expressed their own ideas, not those of "undergraduate sentiment". The news value of even a Penn game on the Monday after it was played, with less than a total of 90 inches of news space in the CRIMSON, hardly exceeds ten inches--the amount given on the day in question. No metropolitan paper gives one ninth of its news columns to intercollegiate football...
Undergraduate sentiment is too vague and ill-defined, at Harvard at least, to make a suitable foundation upon which to build an editorial policy. Every paper represents the opinions and prejudices of those...
...more interested in people that are human, perhaps even a bit naughty, this new school of semi-historical writers has led to the exposing of one shibboleth aften another, the rendering of innumerable veils, the puncturing of bubbles, and the over-turning of practically all the figures which tradition, sentiment, patriotism, and whatnot, had caused to be raised on pedestals...
...supplementary volume in the series, I had an exceptional opportunity to observe the rare catholicity of his taste and the absolute independence of his judgment. He would not even consider anything that did not meet three tests: it must be simple, of superior literary technique, and of wholesome human sentiment. No author's name would recommend a selection deficient in any one requirement. For example, Stevenson's children's verses were mostly "adult opinions in grown-up language". "I wouldn't have in my book a poem with 'birdie' in it, even if Alfred Tennyson did write it." I fondly...