Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Murderer Winzell Williams, who killed a 63-year-old white dairyman, because, said the Governor, few punishments could be worse than "to see certain death staring you in the face day & night for 30 days." When Texans protested his cruelty, Governor O'Daniel explained he sought to arouse sentiment against capital punishment...
...Radio slang for super-sentiment; in German, lard...
This week's issue of TIME (Dec. 19) prints a letter from one Dana Fletcher expressing the sentiment of exclusion of "Europe's unwanted...
Reeking with sentiment and no-good corpses, Zane Grey's 36th novel, Knights of the Range (Harper, $2), tells how beautiful 20-year-old Holly Ripple took over her father's New Mexico cattle empire, reformed a tough bunch of desperadoes, who killed off every rustler in sight. Zane Grey at his best, it is a reminder that probably no other U. S. writer is treated with such indulgence year after year. Zane Grey readers may grow up, but they seldom get away...
...lover of crowns, Führer Hitler would nevertheless not be averse to using any sentiment that exists for a Romanov restoration in Russia to further his own ambitions for an "independent," German-dominated Ukraine. A Romanov trek back to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) is probably outside the realm of possibility, but a substitute throne at Kiev, capital of the Soviet Ukraine, might well be "Tsar" Vladimir's if he plays ball with Führer Hitler, and if Nazi plans work on schedule...