Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress for some time. Less spending, less appropriations, less deficits, less "extraordinary" expenditures;--all these have now become the key note of congressional legislation. The President, far from being bitterly disappointed over the treatment afforded his brain-children, has realized for some time that there is a strong sentiment in the direction of economy, and is probably delighted that this pre-election liability is off his mind...
...admitting the failure of peace strikes as organized in past years, the Harvard chapter of the American Student Union expresses the sentiment of the University with regard to collective action of all sorts...
...Salty sentiment, miniature suspense, and tuneful nonsense combine to make of Shirley Temple's "Captain January" a truly delightful morsel. Miss Temple is a sufficiently important national figure to have given rise to some pretty rabid opinion, both pro and con. At times perhaps there is a little too much of the demonstrative cherubim about her. There might even be some basis for the allegations that she is losing her figure. But when people start calling her a major menace, just put them down as being a little too emotional about their unemotionalism...
Just as there is something quite rugged about a sailor's wooden Virgin-doll, so is there a robust tang in this picture's sentiment, wherein Shirley weeps over just such a doll because Captain January gave it to her and she has been taken away from him. And the songs, "The Right Somebody to Love," "The Early Bird," and especially "At the Codfish Ball," are lilting gaiety
...Council at present utilizes very few of the functions which originally made it a Student Council. No longer does it make any real effort to "create the general sentiment that it is a question of individuals and college honor to maintain a strict attention to scholastic duties" or exercise direct jurisdiction over individual students. These approaches are incompatible with the Harvard theories of independence and individuality. No longer does it exercise the powers of advising student organizations concerning their conduct, of checking up on the scholastic misdemeanors of students, of guarding against evils in the conduct of athletics...