Word: cloying
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...former small Washington staff now has 29 officers. Some are reserves, some are regulars, like Lieut. Colonel Stanley Grogan, who used to be a newspaperman. It also has more than 100 in the field. Last week newsmen learned that General Richardson will be responsible to John J. Mc-Cloy, bald, bulky Manhattan lawyer and new Assistant Secretary...
Hero Casanova Jones, "a gentleman sober, a gentleman blotto," is a Prohibition agent whose wife runs a speakeasy. Beautiful but thick Annabel Cloy imagines herself a poet, and is overjoyed when Casanova, pretending to be a publisher, says he will print her Poems of Passion, is enraged when she discovers his duplicity. From this out, the plot becomes more and more revue-worthy. In the end Casanova, in a vain attempt to regain Annabel's affections, goes deliberately to jail by selling liquor on the street. His example becomes popular...
Another Life Saver. When cigarets taste nasty, when the bouquet of gin lingers, when gum drops cloy-it is soothing to champ at a hard mint tablet. Neither Life Savers Inc. nor other makers of hard candy lozenges flavored with aromatic oils-mint, cloves, pepper-have stressed in their advertising those demands for their products. None the less, they have profited therefrom, Life Savers Inc. most of all. This company is even listed on the Manhattan Stock Exchange. It has 8,000 jobbers and dealers; it makes fruit lozenges, which lack the famed Life Saver "hOle";* and shortly it will...
...Scandal scareheads fading from the newspapers. Now that the air is beginning to clear, Senator La Follette and his iconoclastic apostles are likely to elicit little sympathy with their pointless attack on the new attorney-general. This diligent unearthing of tenuous "Wall Street connections" begins to cloy even the ravenous palates of Western farmers...
...Tiens ta Foi" is carefully written and the plot is well sustained. There is just a sufficient touch of pathos to make it interesting and yet not cloy...