Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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This resolution comes in good time. The League of Nations had undertaken plans for disarmament, but they amounted to nothing more than an expression of a desire, because Japan, though agreeing to the sentiment, refused to be bound in any way while the United States was proposing to double its naval appropriations. The net result of all the talk was the conclusion that however desirable disarmament might be, it was unwise, until this country was also restricted. Senator Borah's resolution answers Japan's objection with no ambiguity. League or no League, we are ready to do business...
...play would demand attention from the spectators and would be real football. There never has been a real argument made against such a provision in the rules, which have already been worked out with too much regard for sentiment and not enough for red-blooded football...
...Star has never believed that the hoodlumism which has found its expression in the burning of British flags in New York sity was representative of an even appreciable proportion of real American sentiment. It is encouraging to note that three of the most representative of New York newspapers--the Times, the Tribune and the World--agree with this belief...
...right after we get some sense knocked into him." This is the sentiment, expressed in one form or another . . . in which the hard headed business man holds the young college graduate. . . . He avers it as his experience that the callow youth just out of college will attempt to advise about the running of the business the first week of his employment. That is why the young graduate gets, at the outset, the hardest and dirtiest and least important jobs about the establishment. It is this attitude, too, that impels many business houses in seeking college men to prescribe "none...
...people have the coarseness and the utter want of finer sensibilities, to joke about it. The average sentiment around College this afternoon seemed to be, Well, it's about time he did something or other; or, the damn fool! did he expect to go on living on nothing...