Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purely for relief, it is pleasant to turn from Mussolini to Italy herself, to remember that Mussolini must find his justification among Italians. The current World's Work points out that, in touting Mussolini, the part played by tradition and sentiment in raising the hope of a new Empire, has been overlooked. It is only the extraordinary methods of the dictator that distinguish him from his predecessors. His ambitions for Italy are the same. And it is doubtful whether, despite his success as a popular colossus, his feet are not of the same clay as theirs...
...dictator, Italy is still impoverished, industrially, educationally. Mussolini has brought order. He is creating conditions favorable to industry and trade. But there would seem to be little to support the idea that the Roman Empire is about to flower into martial glory, except a persistent and lustrious sentiment...
...from the college rule book the compulsion to attend divine services daily. Beginning next autumn young Elis will worship when they see fit. The local Y. M. C. A. representatives professed themselves well pleased. "Now," said they, "Yale can build up a true university church, supported by sincere religious sentiment." The Yale News (undergraduate daily) was even better pleased, having laid down the first militant anti-chapel barrage in 1921 under fearless Editor Edwin Victor Hale Jr., and completed the campaign this year with thunderous siege editorials by resolute Editors C. F. Stoddard, and Russell Lee ("Sonny") Post...
...scientific tools they have pain-fully learned to use for the progressive revelation of that world to its maker-to-be, and with unquenchable enthusiasm for the value of that revelation, the college need not fear. Its future is secure." This may be too much akin to sentiment, to the inspirational to satisfy the modern undergraduate--it may, and probably is, as has been suggested but one face of a multi-sided jewel-- but, fortunately or unfortunately, it is absolutely true...
...hoped to spend some months studying and making complete photographic records of the wall paintings in the Tun Huang grottoes. News from the coast, however, arrived at about that time that the strikes and shootings in Shanghai had resulted in what amounted to a general and anti-foreign sentiment. This was felt even in the remote west and the Harvard party were not permitted to take up their residence at the Tun Huang oasis or to make the necessary photographs...