Word: emotionalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seated on the rail of the greatest liner, coyly showing the rounded part of the famous knees, she may adorn the front page of the Mirror. She may return with the count whose title proved a misnomer at Monte Carlo. She may be hailed as the leading emotionalist of the stage, for all the world loves a lovable Lorelei especially if her diction is precious and her ankles thin. But though the world play suppliant at her feet, yet all this is as nothing if the keystone of her career has not been dropped into place. If the joyful tidings...
...named Inez. He was inclined to be moody, introspective, with occasional outburst of fumbled yet eloquent English. He detested capitalistic society, as did his comrade in life and in jail, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, bachelor, onetime fish peddler and ditchdigger, whose mustache used to be neatly curled. Mr. Vanzetti, an outspoken emotionalist, was the acknowledged orator of the pair...
...neither is any community of same and sophisticated people ever sufficiently broad minded to allow, without some kind of stone throwing, the importunities of the moral emotionalist. And that is exactly what the leader of the Watch and Ward Society must be, in the light of his words. Nor is he completely damned by so being. Such people may sometime enjoy their Miltonesque heaven where the inhibitions of today become the exhibitions of a celestial tomorrow, and one can play on the harps of a divine reward while less consistent devotees of moral restraint suffer a punishment entirely fitting...