Word: sentimentality
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...imagination of the great mass of the people of Europe. Statesmen are following him not because they like him personally but because their people are following him and because they know that if they reject the Wilson program they have nothing to substitute for it that can satisfy public sentiment. It is their one bulwark against the Anarchistic flood...
...recent vote of the Student Council at Harvard recommending to the authorities that intercollegiate athletic contests be at once revived in substantially their old-time form is not merely an indication of undergraduate opinion at one institution. It is in all probability typical of student sentiment throughout the country. And those famliar with the situation are well aware that this sentiment will really determine the issue...
...evidence that it has begun. Some of the hardest fighting of the war is still to come, for when the actual invasion of German territory begins and the scene of war is transferred to German soil, the Impeial Government will be able to make a powerful appeal to the sentiment and interest of the German soldiers. Be that as it may, troops who have been battling offensively for four years cannot fight with the same spirit and the same courage when they know that victory has become impossible and that they must remain to the end of the conflict with...
...original purchaser of the bonds should keep them and not relinquish them to another person. If they are so relinquished, the bonds passed become instantly another's contribution, instead of that of the original purchaser. Public sentiment is now demanding absolute support of the war, and nothing but actual possession of the bonds, paid in full by the original purchaser, is complete satisfactory evidence of his contribution, made in that form, to American victory. LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE OF NEW ENGLAND...
...American sympathy for Ireland there has never been any question. Ties of blood and ties of sentiment have created a union of hearts from which the Irish people have never failed to draw comfort. But there is a class of Irish agitators in this country--a few of them aliens and temporary residents--who in the emergency of the war are disposed to misuse their opportunities. From their places of safety they are bent on stirring up mischief in Ireland with the obvious purpose of giving aid to the enemies of this country. With them the great mass...