Word: sentimentality
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Pragmatically speaking, the incident is well calculated to consolidate national sentiment even more strongly than before in favor of the President elect. His will be a popularity which few men have lived to enjoy. If that popular esteem is ably combined with his great political power and buttressed by intelligent executive leadership, the country will have good reason to regard the event as singularly fortunate...
...death of Boston's youthful heavy-weight contender has called forth from the press an inevitable gush. Mawkish sentiment has become a characteristic of American journalistic expression; it helps to boost circulation. But beneath the columns of effusion one senses an occasional spark of sincerity. Schaaf played the game ably, cleanly, modestly...
Life insurance companies were rescuing the Iowa farmer from beneath his debt pile not because of charity or sentiment but because of hard economic necessity. All the companies asked was that the farmer stick by his land and pay something for the sake of appearances. Their concessions to him were widely regarded as the first major break on the front of private debts-a crumbling of moral obligations-to-pay which creditors have been stoutly maintaining through three hard years. Where the insurance companies led other big financial concerns were expected to follow. With most of them...
Their weekly Washington letter ($25 per year) is a careful reflection of Capital sentiment on fiscal questions, with pros & cons duly weighed. It is long on discussion, short on prediction. In general it takes a long-range view. A half-dozen staffmen maintain personal contacts on Capitol Hill and in. government departments. The letters are compiled in the Munsey Building...
...since 1926 with their relation to the present move. In that connection, it must be remembered that the function of athletic authorities is not to score diplomatic "points" nor to outwit rival authorities by subtle negotiation, but rather to arrange contests which as nearly as possible reflect the undergraduate sentiment in the institutions involved. Apparently Harvard and Princeton officials have decided in this instance to abandon the first theory in favor of the second and sounder...