Word: maudlin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Amid their falsetto shrieks and groans, other travelers, pleasure-spent, raised skull-mugs to their fleshy lips, thwacked the coffin-lid, toyed with human bones?the femur, the tibia, the humerus. Waiters in the greasy black of undertakers made long faces, scurried about the skeleton hall, doing waiters' work. Maudlin antiquaries dilated upon the history of the ghoul-crooked relics...
...friend Rosie Feinbaum went with Pat O'Reilly, a policeman disguised as a milkman, Jew-Irish vaudeville nifties known to everyone who has ever eaten a peanut were served up between the singing of such numbers as Cuddle Up to Me and the delivery of brief but maudlin orations in behalf of race tolerance for the entertainment of an audience that could not but be conscious that, at another theatre only two doors away, leered, as it has for many a long year, a great yellow sign-the advertisement for Abie's Irish Rose...
...sentimental reaction that most hunger strikes engender among hoi polloi will harm their party were they to let Miss MacSwiney carry out her harmless threat. Unquestionably the public watches with awe and apprehension the lengthening days of the hunger strike, lending the victims a gradually increasing support of maudlin sympathy. Since the days of Pre-war Suffragettes in England, the hunger strike has become the last resort of persons who could not attain their ends by any other method...
...Perhaps these notices are but a hoax; perhaps no liquor will be served. But the thing suggests what I had hoped was a vanishing evil,--a lot of maudlin, loud-voiced and excited 'good fellers,' flushed and silly and unmanly, who next day will feel very much ashamed...
...George's proposed treatment of capital offenders thoroughly proves that his theories, as he himself has said, are neither mushy nor maudlin. In segregating them for the term of their natural lives, he eliminates all possibility of pardon or ultimate release. It might be urged that a murderer might very well reform with the passage of time, but in the general run of cases, the risk to the rest of the population which a premature release or an error in judgment would entail, seems to justify at least permanent confinement--where the present penalty is usually death...