Word: maudlin
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...finished the beer, but the page was still empty. Now he would get down to work. No more horsing around. This is important, Vag old man. You're leaving Cambridge, for good. This is the end. Now don't get maudlin, but tell them what you feel. Everybody else did, and now its your turn. A self-inflicted pep talk was occasionaly effective, but the Vagabond just didn't seem to obe in the mood. Lots to say, but not in the mood. On the ball, boy. You get the big stripe tomorrow, and then it will be too late...
After Hamburg was flattened by bombs, the organization was scattered from Berlin to all parts of the Reich. The broadcasters themselves are a motley crew of traitors and adventurers; many (including Lord Haw Haw) suffer from maudlin homesickness. Their pay, on the whole, is not high; Brita seldom hit $400 a month, even with overtime and extra broadcasts...
...four pages are usually crowded with war news from crack correspondents like Alan Moorehead in Algiers, C. V. R. Thompson in New York. But the Express is at its best on stories about murders, sex, abandoned babies and the more maudlin doings of Soho underworldlings. The U.S. staff (three reporters in New York, a man each in Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles) files about 3,000 words daily, is never surprised to get a cable like: "RUSH...
...declares the hero of "The Human Comedy," first Saroyanesque venture into the realm of the motion picture. And the author drums away at his simple theme reel after reel, in a film which occasionally reaches heights of emotion and feeling rarely equalled on celluloid, but which descends to the maudlin almost as often...
...Life Begins at 8:30" is a melange of the vituperative and the maudlin, presumably designed to fit its stars, Monty Wooley and Ida Lupino. A little more of the vituperative would have helped, since too much of the original stage plot of Emlyn "The Corn Is Green" Williams still shows through, despite "The Beard's efforts to give his role a vitriolic dignity. When the play was debuted, New York critics dubbed it "The Corn Is Ripe." That still holds...