Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Consideration of the U. S. farmer involves thousands of facts, hundreds of theories, dozens of nostrums, bushels of sentiment and clouds of politics. Some of the facts...
Trelawny of the Wells. Producer George C. Tyler said, "Where would the world be if it weren't for sentiment?"; and answered his own question by reviving Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's play with the the stage-folk of yesterday: John Drew, Mrs. Whiffen, Otto Kruger, Effie Shannon, Henrietta Crosman, Wilton Lackaye, O. P. Heggie. He tossed in a few of the younger luminaries, too: Pauline Lord...
...these very same friends. So Lawyer Connell learns his lesson, makes a good resolution just before he goes out on his last questionable trial in behalf of his sister's betrayer. Everybody has a heart of gold. The Willard Mack type of melodrama always has a popular sentiment at the bottom, coated over with reliable gags like a little "inside stuff" on the ways of men of the world. Sometimes the hokum is worked into effective theatricality, when the play "gets across with a bang." Honor Be Damned seemed to "get across" at the first night. Playwright Mack made...
...editorials a student conference and "The New Student" per month can hardly compete against the sport pages of hundreds of newspapers. It is perhaps fortutious that Professor Shepard can bring a new vehicle of expression with which to fight the good fight. But his chances of swaying public sentiment are few. We can but admire his effort...
Then arguments of the 101 college professors who have signed a statement in favour of immediate arbitration with Mexico on the question of alien land rights are very much to the point. These men feel that immediate action is necessary before the issue "becomes one of national pride and sentiment", and before "feeling may be aroused which will make impossible the judicial settlement now possible." Professorial arguments may not have been of much influence in United States foreign politics, but at least they cannot be regarded as emanating from men who are uninformed...