Word: sentimentalizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1920
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...speech before the Wood Club last evening the Hon. W. W. Lufkin expressed himself as very hopeful of the issue of the General's campaign. Popular sentiment inclines toward Wood, he said, and that means success. The danger lies in the putting up of less important local sons, with the intent to defeat Wood on the first ballot at the National Convention...
Although this year's 1923 election reflected the sentiment of 60 per cent, or more of the members of the class, the elections of the classes of 1921 and 1922 did not represent such a majority. In order to make all class elections in the future representative of the class the Executive Committee of the Student Council has offered for a ballot at the meeting of 1923 in the Union the following amendments...
America is sick of the eternal wrangling and jockeying for position that seems to be the sole occupation of the Senate! Ever since President Wilson returned last July with the peace treaty, the overwhelming sentiment of the nation has been for ratification in one form or another,--few have cared much what. Admittedly the document is imperfect, but nevertheless nine-tenths of the forms of American expression--the press, the pulpit, the colleges, the chambers of commerce, the leading public men, straw votes--for nine months have urged ratification...
...these characteristics. The instincts of the great mass of Democracy still tend to keep it a party of the common people, not in the sense of the demagogue, but in the sense of Thomas Jefferson. They are still struggling whenever the opportunity offers and a free play of Democratic sentiment is permitted by party organization against those centralizing tendencies that are turning the Government of the United States into an autocracy of bureaucrats...
These open meetings are a part of a series of lectures given under this auspices of the Wood Club for the purpose of spreading knowledge of the career of General Wood and of increasing the public sentiment in favor of his nomination...