Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Lowell and the administration are justified in putting the question directly before the undergraduates and waiting for an answer. They do not intend to start merely another eating place which will not fulfill an absolute need. As yet no attempt has been made to discover the sentiment of upperclassmen and graduate students except through the Union club table offer. The reception of this offer for several reasons, does not seem a true indication of the feeling of upperclassmen toward a University dining hall. The duty of ascertaining this opinion is patently one for the only official undergraduate governing body...
...particular phrase which you have credited him with making. On Nov. 28, 1921, I attended a meeting addressed by Mr. William Jennings Bryan, at which he said he was asked by Mr. Barrett to give to the Pan-American Building, in Washington, a photograph of himself, and, a sentiment to go with...
...Bryan said he gave the picture, and the sentiment he wrote across the picture was: "God has made us neighbors; let justice make us friends." At the time the statement was made, the picture and sentiment was in the Pan-American Building, and I doubt not that it is still there. It is simply a question as to who first gave utterance to this very fine sentiment...
Perhaps the most delightful feature of M. Maurois' style is his refreshing use of similes. For a haphazard example: "Just as occupants of a motorcar, seeing themselves driven to certain disaster by a drunken driver, from a sentiment of honour do not intervene to mitigate his speed so Renaudin's inveterate determination and Monsieur Pascal's grandiloquence led the owner and the hands to a collision which both feared...
...plot, however, he has successfully overcome any dangerous tendencies toward skilful craftsmanship, and has turned out a most amazing burst of oozy sentiment. The jacket description of the plot follows: "Temporarily bored with civilization, its services, its ease and its sophisticatons, Walter Overlook breaks away from hs successful business in New York, and plays hookey in the Maine farming country, in the very house where he was born. After fifteen years he meets his boyhood sweetheart and finds her perfect in her country setting, but no longer of his world. This experience has an unexpected ending...