Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...action has been taken as yet by the Brown athletic board, but there is a growing sentiment at that college that athletics should not be entirely given up. The board will make its stand known tomorrow. Regardless of its decision, the track and baseball coaches are to be retained and opportunity given to those students who desire to go on with a certain amount of outdoor sport...
...individuality and evocative quality of the diction, then by the sustained sweep and music of the line, as contrasted with the briefer felicity of Mr. Norris' phrase. In fact, the two poets present an interesting and suggestive opposition throughout. If in Mr. Norris I find sentiment, fancy, wit--in the older sense--in Mr. Hillyer I find, above all, passion and imagination. But their latest poems are both equally beautiful in their different ways, and both offer promise of even higher performance...
...Reunion," a sketch by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley, a Radcliffe special student, deals with age and sentiment. The chief characters are a woman 80 years old and a man of 62. Miss Hinkley, the author, takes the leading part...
...invaded at dawn. Before sunset one--volunteers will spring to arms.'" Dashes are less cumbersome than (word or words deleted by the censor). In certain cases they may even heighten the effect produced by the news. As in this case: "-- --, L. I., Feb. 30.-- "Colonel -- gave out the following sentiment this afternoon: "-- and my -- -- will go.'" Every American will understand, yet the size of our land forces will not be betrayed. --New Republic...
Many questions of national character allow discussion by Congressmen and citizens according to the dictates of party sentiment. Republicans may argue against Democrats for the continuance of a high protective tariff and justify themselves on the ground that they are upholding party principles. The serious questions before our country today should provoke intelligent discussion on an entirely opposite basis. The intense feeling of political antagonism that was rampant last fall ought to be non-existent now, when instead of the magnified aims of a particular faction being in the balance, the cherished honor and rights of the whole nation...