Word: sentiments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Beetle-browed Laborite Josiah Wedgwood, direct descendant of the famed potter, politely observed that Sunday theaters were unnecessary since soldiers and their girls "would infinitely prefer the dusk and sentiment of the cinema, where they could hold each other's hands...
...died in 1922, was a humorist, a lecturer, an editor, a critic, a librettist, a politician-and successful as all six. Lillian Russell played in his chipper Gilbertian revision of The School for Scandal. As a lecturer he earned $500 a week for discreet blends of laughter and sentiment on such subjects as Salubrities (nice celebrities) I Have Met. As an editor he diapered the old Life's first years, brightened up "The Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded him out. He set a whole generation...
Dingy saddle shoes and tattered reversibles, although a far cry from the customary Oxfords and knee britches, should convince the British of American sentiment just as forcibly as guns...
There seemed to be general agreement among the speakers and in the audience that war is the expansive effort of a capitalism seeking to compensate for its inherent contradictions. It was likewise common sentiment that a society in which war is a permanent or even a recurrent phenomenon does not have the approval of the Harvard Economics Department. All agreed that the post-war world ought to be one in which reorganization in the interests of permanent peace and justice will take place. Most viewed this as meaning an international order based on cooperative commonwealths of one sort or another...
...That the United States and Great Britain should declare their general war aims immediately" was the prevailing sentiment of the six speakers at the Dunster House forum, held last night and sponsored by the non-interventionist Committee for Democratic Action...