Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Connie Goes Home. Edward Childs Carpenter, notable in the past chiefly for The Cinderellla Man, has here concocted a floating-island comedy. It is very clean, very light, completely surrounded by custard seas of sentiment...
Cesar Lopez de Lara is interested in education. He is also Governor of the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. And he has put the two together. First of all, by the exercise of almost arbitrary power, but supported by popular sentiment, he taxed everybody and everything. By this means he built up an educational fund of almost $2,000,000. With this fund he gathered together efficient teachers and employed an American architect to design school buildings, putting an American in full charge of the construction program. This American is to spend up to $1,000,000 for the building...
...said there is a " strong sentiment for the League all over the world." In England there are more than 200,000 members of the League of Nations Union, "and the movement is growing rapidly...
...Luis Silvela was appointed Spanish High Commissioner in Morocco on February 14, 1923, in succession to General Damaso Berenguer, retired. General Berenguer was charged by public sentiment with negligence in connection with the Spanish defeat of 1921. Recently he caused a pleasant surprise by waiving his immunity to trial by demanding to be tried before the Supreme Court of War and Marine...
...service? for a term of years. Shortly thereafter comes the sinister Due de Tours (Wallace Beery) seeking her love. How she repulsed him and how the servant rescued her from his drunken embrace comprise the burden of the plot. There is abundant death and sword play. There is sentiment and spectacle. There is an absence of pretense...