Word: sentimentality
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...confirmed beer-lover, however, this measure is little more than palliative. As far as it goes it is practical since it will provide supposedly three hundred million dollars revenue, and is also expected to prevent racketeering brewers by supervising manufacture. Although it will scarcely satisfy the repeal sentiment throughout the country, it is a step in the right direction; and its practical application will do much to guide Congress in the long process of working out a repeal measure that will not turn out to be another "experiment...
...bids fair to fill Hollywood unconsciously with excellent South Sea scenarios is hard to say. Whatever has been spoiled in this production is that which has been added to the stage show, not taken away. The result is a sincere impressive play, full, but not blown up with sentiment and passion, and interrupted constantly by manifestations of the mechanical ingenuity of the producers. These Hollywood moguls obviously feel that it would reflect no glory on them to let Joan Crawford dominate a scene prepared by some British author-- they must do something to show that Hollywood's money is speaking...
President Hoover's proposed cut of 700,000,000 dollars in government costs seems to be in accord with the strong sentiment for federal economy throughout the country. Since it would dangerously impair national credit to continue the budget along the lines of 1929, he has chosen this way of reducing it. Apparently there are two reasons for his doing this. First is his opposition to a beer bill (which would be a lucrative source of revenue to the government); and secondly the fact that a sales tax would be unlikely to pass Congress. The budget has to be balanced...
...been said that these students are dudes, toughs, and gladiators. This situation may exist in the Cantabrigian institution, but the number does not dictate student sentiment. The moral corruption and extravagance rests almost solely in a limited class. It is in this group only that little study, fast life and immoral actions persist...
...together a little too hastily to make a sharply drawn and forceful portrait of either the man or his time. His appraisal of the man differs markedly from that of Rockefeller's early muckrackers, William D. Lloyd and Ida Tarbell, who wrote before the great philanthropies had mellowed public sentiment and mergers had become respectable. These critics were dominated by the competitive ideal which Rockefeller perceived at the outset as false and inapplicable to the exigencies of the business situation and which we have more recently come to doubt as sound public policy. Valid criticism of Rockefeller should be based...