Word: sentimentality
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Disregarding the fact that few dying men have strength or inclination to call for music, playing on the sentiment that the ideal exit would be made to the strains of some great composer, The Etude, music magazine whose appeal is usually more pedagogic than popular, last week published answers to a questionnaire sent out to various U. S. heroes asking what music they would choose to have played if they had only a few hours to live. Other choices...
...Representative Mary Teresa Norton of New Jersey. (Her only son died.) "The gross obscenity of a pamphlet written by a woman in Brooklyn*is so shocking that if I were not controlled by Christian sentiment, I would feel like shooting a man who would hand such a pamphlet to one of my four daughters. [Doctors] have been able to give such advice as was necessary to their patients and would continue...
Cabled a London correspondent: ". . . The affair has had a depressing effect on financial sentiment...
Recent expressions in Cambridge and in Princeton of an undergraduate sentiment favoring resumption of relations in all sports except football have grown so strong as to remove all doubts as to the attitude of the two student bodies towards each other. It is clear that the officials have acted wisely in no longer allowing football to dominate the issue and prohibit all other sports...
Whether this bill will pass in the legislature and whether in that case it will attain the desired objective is not the point. Its values lies primarily in the sentiment which it shows in the legislature. The representatives are taking things into their own hands and in lieu of any action on the subject from Washington are throwing off the bonds of cooperation to give an answer to the demands of the people. But they have wisely refrained from throwing all discretion to the winds in an effort to please the masses. The moderate nature of the acts shows that...