Word: maudlinity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public. A few excellent pictures which the public demands are sufficient to force the purchase of miles of rot. That the huge majority of movies is unpopular and unprofitable does not affect the producers, secure behind the walls of their monopoly, yet the studies continue to gush forth their maudlin mush oblivious of the fate of the exhibitors or the displeasure of the audiences. A system of single picture booking would not eliminate all inferior productions, but it most certainly, would raise the general level and would allow the theatre owners to select pictures on the basis of their merits...
...power has made Tammany careless, and Mayor LaGuardia's investigations are gradually developing a complete picture of its makeup and methods. The people of New York may tolerate graft and financial corruption as unavoidable evils, but, cynical as they may be, they cannot fail to be moved profoundly by maudlin sadism...
...Sunday spoke so fast that no one was able to hear him, not even these in the first rows who had been laced there because they were hard of hearing. Despite being understandable, Mr. Sunday was anything but inarticulate. Repeal, he says "will fill the streets with staggering, reeling, maudlin, stewing drunkards"; moreover, "you can no more reform a saloon than you can reform a pole-cat so it won't smell...
...Salesman Kibbee paws at a wench (Joan Blondell) who maneuvers him into the first stage of the badger game. Salesman Menjou is discredited when a jealous saleswoman (Mary Astor) interferes with his attentions to President Honeywell's daughter. The salesmanager-ship finally goes as a bribe to a maudlin inebriate who has caught President Honeywell about to visit "Daisy La Rue, Exterminator...
This time there was no Clarence Darrow, no highly paid alienist, no maudlin press, no bribed jury, nor oratorical defense lawyers, and no harassing of bereaved relatives on the witness stand. Thurmond and Holmes were too gulity to be accorded the delightful interlude called American criminal justice. The mob was sick of a system that convicts 299 out of 300 law abiding citizens accused of violating traffic regulations and then refuses to convict 79 out of 30 accused murderers...