Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good piece of music, well adapted to harp and orchestra. Chicagoans listened with interest to this novelty. Sweet were the strains they heard, filled with all the dreaming melancholy, the tender elegance, of another day. Yet they were glad when Conductor Stock led something else. For sentiment cannot long garble truth; the viol, the violin, the pianoforte are all superior to the harp; nor can that gracious instrument any longer move men as it could long ago when jongleurs played, by candlelight and firelight, in shadowy halls...
...during the War, he stopped a strike of munitions workers that had been financed by Germany. He brought labor solidly to the support of the Government?which was no light task because of pro-German and anti-English sentiment. At the Peace Conference, he headed the Labor mission...
Should taste or sentiment argue nothing, the Junior may yet be induced to take his chances for the Yard dormitories by the thought that the last year of his college residence draws near, and his acquaintance with the men of his class is, at best, very meager. Harvard is the university par excellence of the individual. The much mooted question of Harvard indifference very largely explains itself through the emphasis placed upon the sacred right of a man to be himself, even to the point of being thought queer for it. But individualism like other virtues, becomes a vice when...
...festive occasions, when the sentiment of gift-giving becomes dominant, individuals, as well as organizations should make gifts, of some standard books to the youth of India...
...four distinctly good things in the Christmas Advocate, however, have nothing to do with Christmas. The first in order is John Finley's "College for Knowledge." Here, after his brief excursion into the realms of sentiment. Mr. Finley returns to his former suavely acid insinuations, and quite convinces us that the entire Workshop affair is after all, merely another absurd and inconsequential eddy in the comic stream that college is. Hugh Whitney's "Ballad", next in order, is exquisitely done and comment seems superfluous Whitney Cromwell unleashes the ironic whiplash of his tongue in "The Salesman", and Charles Allen Smart...