Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since prohibition became national and the word Volstead was minted for household use. Yet last week while Andrew J. Volstead, three years since retired from Congress, was quietly busy in St. Paul investigating the validity of manufacturing permits for the use of industrial alcohol, a wave of anti-prohibition sentiment rose. How large the wave may have been, how much genuine and how much propaganda-made, there is no saying. But it made a big splash...
...butler, as a tramp, as an idiotic young man, Mr. Clive has in other years drawn tears of laughter from his audience: but as the old man in "False Pretences", the sniffs and nose-blowings which he caused were of a different character. The pathetic old man was a sentimental character in a very sentimental play; but Mr. Clive did not quite overact, the rest of the company was not over-sentimental--Miss Standing had ample opportunity, but over-sentimentality is a rare thing with her--and the great American public likes sentiment, anyway...
Prohibition's best friend is Kansas. In the newspaper poll of the nation just now compiled sentiment everywhere ran overwhelmingly in favor of modification or repeal except in a few southern states and in Kansas. Kansas was dry--incomparably drier than any other state in the Union. The natural query is, what manner of commonwealth is this that, alone among its fellows outside the stolid South, still stands so stubbornly beside its Volsteadian guns...
...condition they are willing to do this, they show a loyalty to rank and property strangely incongruous in a socialist republic. Capitalists who dread Socialism will then sigh with relief to find their worst bugbear so completely discounted in Germany. And political students who question the strength of Republican sentiment in Germany will have their doubts settled by the greatest popular referendum since Napoleon III staged his coup d'etat...
...sake, stop playing with high explosives. There is a cyclone of sentiment for immediate independence being created. If it burst, it will spend all its fury in the Philippines. If you really want happiness and genuine freedom, retain your junior partnership in the United States and do not try to navigate the troublesome seas of international affairs without a pilot...