Word: sentimentality
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...sentiment in the long run gets the better of humor. "Imagine at nearly three that mind of his ! I imagine it, you know, as a little house, a little honeycomb, made up of pearly white cells - glistening, dewy, lustrous, semitransparent, pearly pearly white cells: untrodden, untouched, and pure, oh pure beyond all conception of purity. Imagine by contrast with it the honeycomb house of a long-used mind, the mind of one past middle-age, and you will realize how pure and white and glistening and untouched it is. Imagine the trodden, trampled, often miry footpaths, (no, thought-paths...
Birth Control League and a conference invitee, wanted the conference to report on birth control. Her efforts (she said) "brought only ridicule and curt replies. . . . Not a single committee was willing to let us put this problem before them." Impatient, she scolded at sociologists: "They are still governed by sentiment and tradition. . . . They refuse to apply biology, even though this science has been concerned with defectives for years. America should not have 10,000,000 defective children. It is time that social service is catching up with science. Instead, it waits until the child is born and is struggling...
Other prophets heard during the week were bullish. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., lean president of General Motors Corp. said: "I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year." Iron Age (75 years old last week) reported a "change of sentiment in the steel industry." The first quarter of 1931 was seen as the likely end of the decline in business by Harvard Economic Society...
...Many of our people are in need and suffering. ... A proper celebration should include that every person, young and old, shall have cause to give thanks for our institutions and for the neighborly sentiment of our people...
...surprised Calles by being human. A University President got a second million out of a philanthropist by making sure that the first million was thoroughly publicized. Famed Realtor Joseph P. Day sold an old-fashioned office building to Steel's late great Judge Gary by a neat appeal to sentiment...