Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orchestras are not good, and this one, with its lack of unanimity and of smoothened tone, compared not at all favorably with the small but expertly efficient orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera House. Nor was Mr. Stransky's conducting of high quality. He often achieved exquisite niceties of sentiment in this opera of sentiment, but he did not bring out the glorious polyphony with power and clarity, that grand moving of part against part which in Die Meistersinger should dizzy and inflame the listener...
...brief announcement from the White House ended a long discussion. Thirty-one prisoners-the last of those convicted under the Espionage Act for speaking against the Government and exciting sentiment against the draft- were ordered released by the President...
...investigate industrial conditions and to arouse public sentiment against injustice in industry. This was a venture into a highly controversial field where many conservatives believed the Church should not go. Its report on the steel strike was a victory for the Movement, but was a leading cause of its final defeat. In its clash with Judge Gary (TIME, June 4, July 16, Aug. 13, Aug. 20), the Movement came off with honors. In its resulting clash with its constituents in the churches, it lost...
...view of the wide-spread popular sentiment in favor of letting wartime offenses be bygones, President Coolidge has taken the wise course. There is also the probability that before very long these restless spirits will again place themselves in a similar position of active opposition to the present social order. Although it will be a much more difficult task to dispose of them, without the aid of the summary proceeding incidental to a state of war, the fact that they are old offenders will make convictions and long-term imprisonments more acceptable to a certain niceness of the public taste...
...been pronounced a dead issue. President Coolidge, referring to the League in his message to Congress, said. "The incident, so far as we are concerned, is closed." Does Judge Clarke agree with him? Will he bow to this dictum? It will be interesting to bee how he refutes this sentiment in his speech tonight...