Word: sentimentality
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Senator Watson summed up the sentiment of the convention in his seconding speech. "With Coolidge, Dawes, and the sound Republican principles of a thoroughly to a victory, as deserved as always by the Grand Old Republican Party...
...long been one of the foibles of Anglo-Saxon races to Characterize the Latins as foolish, sentimental people, and to consider themselves as particularly rational and practical; and this delusion is still widely popular. Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth. It is the Latin who looks at the realities of life, and who, arguing like Machiavelli and Mussolini, from what man is, decide what government must be. It is the Anglo-Saxon who commences with an abstraction, an ideal conception of what ought to be, and finally shapes his state upon opportunity, according to theory...
This realism, amounting in the case of rulers at least to pessimism certainly has its disadvantages internally, it can hardly result in mutual confidence and loyalty, and "distrust" might be called the key to Italian history. Almost as truly might "sentiment" be called the key to English and American history. One must remember that appearances are deceiving. If one wants proof, one should turn not to the things which a nation says of itself--but to the reasoning with which its politicians away the populace or to the philosophy of its great men. One finds such contrasts as Lincoln...
Maytime. The famous operetta, which is still a favorite after seven years, has been presented on the screen, minus the music and the swinging choruses. The effect is supremely silly. Sentiment is splashed around with a whitewash brush. An attempt has been made to jazz up this fragrantly simple story of the lovers who buried their love beneath a tree as they were forced to marry others, and had their souls reunited at last in their descendants. Harrison Ford, Ethel Shannon, Clara Bow and William Norris pop in and out of the story, doubling on their tracks through three generations...
That the present Freshman regulations requiring black ties, socks, garters and shoes, and forbidding fur coats except in exceptional circumstances, should be respected as part of the most time-honored traditions of Princeton, was the unanimous sentiment at a recent meeting of the Princeton Senior Council. Ways and means for enforcement of these regulations were discussed at length...