Word: sentimentality
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...child he plans what will seem to be an accidental drowning in a lonely lake. He loses his nerve at the last moment but the boat is overturned by accident and he lets the girl drown. Arrested, he goes though the interminable murder trial full of chicanery and sentiment which is the delight of the American press. He is convicted, and spends his last days trying to understand why he did it, trying to decide whether he was really guilty but finding no clear answer. A poor thing he lived, a poor thing he died...
...only issue of any consequence so far created is the World Court. The Progressive Republicans seem intent to press this as far as they can against regular Republicans in states where there is irreconcilable sentiment, such states as Wisconsin and Illinois...
...about a year ago he set out to write a pamphlet to show that prohibition was a success, but after going about making investigations changed his mind. He sent out a questionnaire to 20,000 members of the society a few months ago and found a great change in sentiment towards modification of the Volstead Act. He declared...
...country demanding the immediate passage of a bill reducing taxes, that the division of opinion in the Senate as to what items of taxation should be reduced was a narrow one, and the two-thirds vote closing debate could not be obtained; is there any doubt whatever that public sentiment would be solidly behind a majority cloture rule which would enable a majority of the Senate to do its constitutional duty and reduce taxation...
...with grotesquerie well calculated to frighten little children. Part of the time he is a benevolent bishop. Renee Adoree, the French girl of The Big Parade, is the heroine, capably enough. Mr. Chaney is always good, and his pictures are never watered with too obvious and too usual melodramatic sentiment...