Word: sentimentality
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...Sentiment in the House to which the Senate bill was sent for further action was ripe for enactment of this first enlargement of the quota system west of the Atlantic Ocean. The voice of Labor in Texas, Arizona, Colorado, Utah and New Mexico was louder at the Capitol than the voice of Business...
...Prohibition as a policy. That is not the issue. The issue is whether it is practicable and in the public interest to apply that policy to the United States as a whole through the agency of the Federal Government. . . . "In many States where it is in accord with popular sentiment, national Prohibition is generally believed to be successful. In other States the system works badly because the people and their officials do not cooperate. ... Is it well that large portions of our people should conceive of the Federal Government as an alien and even a hostile Power? Is it well...
...send mothers who lost their sons in France on a pilgrimage to their graves. She organized the Gold Star Association (now disbanded) to promote this scheme. Five years ago she appeared in Washington, got New York Congressmen to introduce her bill for the trip. At first there was no sentiment whatever for the project...
Asked to explain, the Archbishop said he was acting "from motives which must be evident to anybody who has the least Christian sentiment...
...Norwegian Treasury will also defray the expenses of Fru Anderson's return (triumphal it is hoped) to Oslo. Public sentiment there holds that too long have scalawag husbands found it comparatively easy to leave their faithful wives stranded in Norway while they revel in what one Oslo editor called last week "the easy prosperity and dissolute high life of the States...