Word: sentimentality
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...Rosary, song of sentiment, sold 2,670,750 copies...
...everywhere an implied, if not explicit, contempt for those who use any dodge to escape reality. There is something tremendously courageous, almost sadistically so, in this attitude. It is probable, with him, that reality itself is an escape from something he fears more--sentiment, romance, mysticism... "Mencken never describes anything, he tears it to pieces and throws it in your face... His aesthetic is Good Workmanship. His Muse is Technique...
...sentiment of the Council that these regulations are not in the nature of meaningless restrictions, but are of value to both Freshmen and upperclassmen. It urges that members of 1934 accept these rules in the spirit in which they have been handed down by succeeding classes of Princeton...
...Eighteenth Amendment has been penetrating into the administrative consciousness of our country. At last the need is felt for a dispassionate compilation of facts with which to back up after-dinner arguments. Until now this undertaking has been almost entirely in unofficial hands, the most noteworthy counts of wet sentiment having been taken by the Literary Digest in 1922 and again in 1930. But now the new research division of the Prohibition Bureau is mailing questionnaires to three thousand editors of American newspapers, asking whether they are wet, dry or neutral, in order to get an idea of public opinion...
There is plenty of theoretical argument against branchbanking. There is also much sentiment against it, for oldtime U. S. banking tradition is one of local "unit" independence (the local small-town banker a fatherly financial shepherd to his local flock). Also, for practical purposes, potent bankers have found it prudent to disclaim any intention of becoming more potent lest such designs should offend small bankers who, meanwhile, must be their principal customers. Therefore, the merging-grouping trend had to move until it had half-swept the nation before the A. B. A. dared approve it. And even last week...