Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...challenged on many fronts, the Governor's move came as a shock. In tampering with Thanksgiving--which involves freedom to worship without restriction--Massachusetts is weakening the traditions which the Pilgrims fought to establish. Outside of the Women's Republican Club, a November twenty-third holiday is a national sentiment. Mr. Saltonstall is presuming to tell the Commonwealth it cannot follow its own desires...
...warrant the prediction, not an uncommon one now, that a period of romanticism will follow very shortly. It seems logical that a reaction should come after such a drastic trimming down of musical style as we saw in many composers after the War, but if the present classical sentiment persists, it should be enough in itself to hold within bounds a tendency toward the looseness and freedom of real romanticism...
Secondly, pro-Allied sentiment among proponents of this educational approach to the war tends to interpret a furthering of the Allied cause as a defense of American democracy. This, too, has yet to be conclusively shown; maybe British propaganda agents will be forced to prove it soon. But in any case, the basis of such a program for education here appears to be the old "one fact and a prejudice...
...Imperialist war . . . is tearing away the veils of hypocrisy behind which the monopoly capitalists were hiding their ruthless dictatorship. . . . Thus 'democratic' America, even while it is technically neutral, forgets its liberal dream about a 'New Deal' and loses itself in a wave of reactionary sentiment. . . . Only the working class, rising in alliance with the rest of the toiling population, and taking the decisions out of the hands of the capitalist class, can prevent...
Since his fiancée died of a badly diagnosed appendicitis, stern Surgeon Forster (Akim Tamiroff) has lived for science, not for sentiment. His efforts to hew Dr. Beaven (John Howard) in his own grim image are upset when the younger physician meets exotic, black-banged, slitherish Audrey (Dorothy Lamour). An American brought up by Chinese, Audrey speaks English with a nursery-school singsong. Dr. Forster succeeds in breaking up their match in the interests of science, but he also breaks up Dr. Beaven, who sets out to hunt his Audrey among 450,000,000 warring Chinese...