Word: sentimentality
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...Harvard CRIMSON's poll of student sentiment on the Prohibition question in 14 leading universities, the Literary Digest's national poll now in full swing, and the recent 82-61 vote of the New York Assembly supporting the Cuvillier bill petitioning Congress to call a Constitutional convention to repeal the unlovely Amendment have served, for the first time, to bring together under the same tent definite and compact opinion on the liquor question from three distinct elements in the Republic...
...Mammy and When the Little Red Roses Get the Blues for You (Brunswick)?Neither the tunes nor the sentiment can boast originality but Al Jolson sings them in his most propulsive manner. A second-best Jolson record is Looking at You and Let Me Sing and I'm Happy, both from the cinema Mammy...
...with red velvet waistcoats shouted themselves hoarse in the galleries, banged the heads of equally violent young classicists in the pit. With their passion for exactness, French professors have chosen that date as the beginning of the movement in literature and art known as Romanticism, the age of Sentiment. The Parisian art world has made much of the Centenary of Romanticism this winter. But until last week New York's only notice of the occasion was the appearance of Eggs Alfred de Musset on the menus of some of the more effete speakeasies. The Balzac Galleries rushed into...
...were Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Beau Brummel. Mammy (Warner). It is strange but inescapably true that Al Jolson can sometimes make his kind of song-intrinsically tawdry though it is-sound like a folktune a thousand years old and that he can be funny as well as sentimental. Mammy is as silly as most other Jolson pictures. Irving Berlin, who wrote the tunes, wrote the story too-a backstage triangle with a "mother angle" thrown in to key up the sentiment. Jolson does a drunk scene and sings many times. The tunes are better than some of Berlin...
...case of seduction, in which he found for the defendant, made a pronouncement from the bench to the effect that 'There is no such thing as seduction.' Although in my opinion this statement is somewhat extreme for our purposes, it serves to demonstrate the modern trend of sentiment...