Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...write contrived melodramas: "The Little Foxes," for instance, is so admirably constructed, so logical in development, so clever in its thematic manipulation, that it seems, at times, too pat. But emotion is not lacking in it, or in "Watch on the Rhine" which builds to a tremendous climax of sentiment. Other recent melodramas, such as "Angel Street" and "Ladies In Retirement," are based primarily on a chain of circumstances, cunningly joined together by the author, but mood is an essential part of the atmosphere of these plays, and sentiment is obviously used to create sympathy for the murdered ones...
Three Varsity coaches voiced sentiment in favor of preserving Freshman intercollegiate competition despite Yardling eligibility for Varsity teams yesterday. All of the mentors expressed determination to help condition athletes to meet the need for physically fit men in the national emergency...
...Evanston, Ill., last week a band of serious, middling-to-elderly ladies, the brain trust of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, clucked appreciatively over a Gallup poll on Prohibition sentiment. After eight years of Repeal, 36% of the Gallup-checked electorate said they were willing to try Prohibition once again...
When Reform Governor "Sweet-Smellin' " Sam Houston Jones bravely issued a statement which noted 1) weakening of the machine-controlled vote, 2) mounting of reform sentiment, New Orleanians laughed. They saw-as Sweet-Smellin' Sam must have seen-that Louisiana's brief two years of Reform Government looked to be about over...
...outside to line up before the pay window. A passing workman gave the last Chevrolet an affectionate kick in the rear-as it might be a farmer slapping an old horse. They knew that a chapter in their lives was over. Some current of emotion-half-abashed, selfconscious, a sentiment that seemed a little ridiculous when dedicated to inanimate machinery-moved through the crowd, finding its outlet in the horseplay, the offhand talk, the what-the-hells with which American workmen cover up what they feel...