Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anti-Republican sentiment in the University will crystallize this afternoon when an open meeting will be held at 4.30 in Randolph Breakfast Room to organize the Harvard Democratic Club. The meeting will be addressed by undergraduates and by members of the Democrats State Committee...
...allies, engaged in the crudest of all wars, an inestimable aid, and whose every effort was for the creation of a definite peace by the organization of an international entente, this Chamber addresses to the House of Representatives of the United States the homage of its sentiment of profound regret." The Deputies assented in silence by raising their right hands...
...Catteraugus philanthropist turns out to be the grandfather of the family governess. Furthermore, there is a count present who is exposed as a chef before the play is done. Fashion is fluffy with crinolines and sentiment. Many of the stock characters, and some of the lines, are still doing reliable service, barbered in the prevailing mode. But playwrights no longer luxuriate in soliloquies, nor hurl asides at the audience like bombs...
...priest, falls in love with him, tries to go straight, to win his smiles and maybe his kisses. When he repulses her advances, bang goes another convert! After a year with another man, again the wages of sin are a baby. The play groans under a load of sentiment. The characterization is conventional, enlivened by small-boy efforts to say something risqu...
...open house are strongly asserted by older men who might have been expected to forget such things may be useful in sustaining them but makes the basic point of view scarcely less childish. It is the point of view of "Don't come in to my back yard"--a sentiment one could expect from Penrod only in his most egotistical mood...