Word: maudlinity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cleveland are realizing that Donnybrook Fair was just an old maids' tea party: we're in the throes of another Legion roughhouse. The maudlin, impudent, vicious, and obscene nuisances being committed here are nothing short of a national disgrace. From disinterested Cleveland citizens I have heard only strong disapproval and condemnation...
...year-old son Jesse Jr. while he was staging a drinking bout in her California home (TIME, Dec. 9); in Santa Barbara, Calif. In absolving his mother, Jesse Jr. testified that the gun went off when he forced it into her hands as the climax of a maudlin "mock death scene...
...Maudlin, Perhaps, But Gripping...
...mother's who elects himself as her guardian and educates her so that she may be "desirable" is as bland and gracious as ever. The role of the actress mother is capably handled by Vera Teasdale. Though at times the acting is overdone and the story turns to maudlin sentimentality, the charm of the young girl struggling to learn about life and love is enough to overcome and obliterate these defects of presentation...
...Dillinger, we hear, was loudly applauded when his frank and honest face appeared on the screen of a Chicago cinema. Never having seen the Robin Hood in this tough of the prairies, this maudlin applause seems quite out of place; almost as much as a lynching itself. If Chicago audiences want to cheer the underdog, let them do it heartily, but it would be better to get him first, and prove that he is the underdog. At present he is probably motoring through the Middle West, spraying the corn and the farmers with his automatic exterminator...