Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until England's heroic defeat at Dunkirk had there been much popular sentiment behind such volunteer efforts. But by last week voluntary U. S. contributions for England were pouring into agency offices at the rate of about two million dollars monthly. Some volunteer aid facts...
...Cowboy and the Ladies. Both the sentimentality and the rhetoric of Meet John Doe profit greatly by its star, whose personality has a great tendency to de-schmalz sentiment and de-rant rhetoric. Tens of thousands of fans know that Gary Cooper is 6 feet 2¾ inches tall, 175 pounds heavy, 40 years old, and that if he grew a beard he would look rather like Abraham Lincoln. To his friends he is "Coop." Though special tributes are often paid him where young women gather, he escapes such masculine calumny as sometimes finds its way toward the ears...
...assumption that Britain was fighting a just war for Democracy, and proceeding to his present view-point of military intervention if necessary. Conant himself is presented as a leading propagandist for the administration and as having "utilized every means of propaganda at his disposal to break down the peace sentiment in this country...
...Brothers spoke from Hollywood and their usual lavish feast of superbly baked ham was mixed with reasonably straight brotherly sentiment. Lionel wanted to tell Ethel over the radio: "We brought a big red apple for you, but John drank it." The line was cut from the script. So with many heavy Lionelesque gasps and wheezes he told how Ethel had helped him into his first big part when "I burst like a chrysalis on Broadway and knocked them for a row of Chinese pagodas. . . . I've never been so good since.'' With a melancholy, boot-reaching sigh...
Yardlings and Upperclassmen have deluged the nation with flowers and singing telegrams, kittens and a bowl of mushroom soup, heterogeneous evidence of their sentiment on this Valentine...