Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News. Like doting maiden aunts, Britain's press rang fatuous changes on the great news. Headlines were heady with sentiment over the "love match." Austerity, coal crises, rationing and shortages faded from the news columns to make way for reports of the lovers. "Philip," announced one paper solemnly, "turned up Friday with a ring on the little finger. He usually wears it on his second finger." Even the Daily Worker seemed affected by the monarchical atmosphere. "This alliance," it proclaimed with the cold disapproval of a Romanov, "is not to our liking." While the Daily Express polled its readers...
...cases, sentiment was overwhelmingly in favor of the proposed activities center...
...Matter of Sentiment. In Los Angeles, a rummaging detective found a pair of brass knuckles in the home of Edna Franklin, had to accept her explanation that they were treasured family heirlooms handed down by her dear departed mother...
...side section of New York City where she lived after her return from Japan. Her characters all live in the same boxlike apartment house, and their humdrum lives shortly become caught up in a naive pattern which is spun without imagination. In this Grand Hotel without grandness, coincidence and sentiment are bigger than life...
...also preaches a strangely ambiguous moral. Kris Kringle inveighs against the commercialism which has perverted Christmas. But most of the wit and comedy in the show, all of the logic, and much of the sentiment, endorse the idea that faith, honesty, kindness, magnanimity and the innocence of the imagination are chiefly to be respected because no other kind of investment pays off a fraction so well, in hard cash and at the voting booths...