Word: sentimentality
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...were enough to generate an embryonic halo about the head of Calvin ("Weaned-on-a-pickle") Coolidge, a previously insignificant politician who had cautiously climbed the Massachusetts "escalator." Two dozen months of spotlight put completely in the shadow Herbert Hoover's world-significant career, and robbed him of whatever sentiment had been attached to his name. Losing faith in the Press, he has come to think of himself as a martyr in a hair shirt, misunderstood and misinterpreted by the People...
...that the programs of the Glee Clubs which we occasionally hear may be of the hybrid nature, calculated to tickle the palate of the lover of purely "college music" as well as that of the listener more interested in tone and technique. If, however, it were to be the sentiment that such hybrid programs should be removed, we would be far more in favor of breeding a pure strain of "highbrow music" than of fostering the tunes which we ourselves may shout in off-color tenors with the morning shave. TheDartmouth
This year the coaches at Yale ascertained the sentiments of players by calling a conference of football captains, past and present. They, as representative of the members of their teams, voted for Spring practice. Either in blind ignorance or on purpose, this was taken as indicative of the true sentiment toward the question. But the captain, perhaps most of all, is most desirous to head a winning team; otherwise he would be an extraordinary and undesirable leader. Can they, naturally prejudiced, answer for all other...
...dual nature of the gift which makes it both a thing of utility and of sentiment will make the Poetry Room a particularly acceptable addition to the cultural opportunities of Harvard...
Mutterliebe, Heimatsklange, Gretel und Liesel (German Independent Companies). In cities like Manhattan, St. Louis, Chicago, the German population is large enough to give capacity business to the little theatres which show such all-German pictures as these. Mutterliebe is a story of mother-love overlaid with Teutonic sentiment but built with less logic than most German stories; it tells of a woman so anxious to give mother love that she kidnaps a little girl. Heimatsklänge is a travelog showing pretty views of Rotenburg, Dinkelsbühl, Wertheim, and Fussen; it is synchronized with German folk music. Gretel...