Word: sentimental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Election of a new Republican National Committeeman in Illinois last fortnight revealed nothing about Republican sentiment in that key State except that the local gentlemen do not want National Chairman John Hamilton's finger poking into their local affairs. Over Charles B. Goodspeed, the G. O. P.'s national treasurer and John Hamilton's good friend, they elected Hill Blackett, 47, advertising tycoon (Blackett-Sample-Hummert Inc.), who handled radio time for the Landon campaign. Announced Committeeman Blackett last week: "Any man has an equal chance as far as I'm concerned...
Like a good fellow, the War Office laughs off the "unreliable" information about the Army possessed by most civilians: "... being a shy and rather self-conscious nation, and disliking any display of sentiment, we endeavour to conceal our real feelings towards such a calling as the soldier's by being flippant about it - cracking jokes on the subject - jokes about red tape, brass-hats, bully beef, and serjeant-majors. All of which is harmless enough...
...Fair, went a speech on "Youth in Tomorrow's World," by Attorney General Frank Murphy, a devout Roman Catholic who is no more averse to helping the Y. M. C. A. than to endorsing the Oxford Group (see p. 54). All this smoke, fire and warm sentiment celebrated the Y. M. C. A.'s 95th anniversary...
Passerby, attracted momentarily, looked with narrowed eyes at the word "Our" and seemed to agree with the druggist's sentiment...
Professor William Lyon Phelps has been especially emphatic in his approval, saying "It is a wonder to me that nothing of this sort has been started before. There is a certain unity of sentiment among the three colleges that cannot be found in any other group of universities in this country...