Word: jerker
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Scripps-Howard's Washington Daily News, $500 for his cartoon entitled "The Light of Asia." It showed a brawny fist, labeled Japan, clutching a crumpled sheaf of papers which blazed like a torch. It was marked: "Nine Power Treaty- Kellogg Pact." Cartoonist Talburt, one-time Toledo soda-jerker, is a Scripps-Howard ace. Oldtime Editor Negley D. Cochran who developed him says: "Some of us write editorials and are called editors; Talburt draws editorials and is called a cartoonist." The 1932 Pulitzer Prize for books on U. S. themes...
...vitality and glow of her own extraordinary personality. She personifies, more than she impersonates, a woman who, nourished by experience, faces her own age with equanimity and has courage enough not to hate her inferiors for their trivial misdeeds. What would otherwise have been a routine tear-jerker is thus strengthened with some measure of warmth and humanity. Typical shot: Miss Dressier arising in court to contradict her lawyer when he belittles her accusers...
Pierre too, alas, loved (and in vain) a girl of his own home town. When Ann married his rival, Pierre cut a caper to hide his bleeding heart, took a job as soda-jerker to study character, saved his pay for his triumphal journey to Manhattan. On the eve of Pierre's departure old Tony appeared with a play he had written, read it to newly-married Ann. Tony's play, in Seven Keys to Baldpate style, goes on with the story from that point. It shows Pierre at the last minute sacrificing his career for Ann's sake, giving...