Word: maudlinity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moreover, the acting is on the whole good. Miss Williams gets little maudlin at times, but at others she is refreshing. And so is Fred Keating. The most polished bits of all are engineered about Michelette and Claude Burani and George Spelvin as concierge, gendarme, and French gentleman, respectively, who are the principal artists in two local color episodes which almost called for encores last night...
...poor old fathers can no longer afford to keep them in the manner to which they are accustomed, and scratch for a living? There is not one scintilla of reasonable argument dictating that a divorced man should support some woman he is no longer living with. Only sentimentality and maudlin legal precedent are responsible for this unnatural, stupid state of affairs. Turn the parasites out to root for themselves...
...must have been in March that Johnson bade him go kick a stone. The gilt shimmer of Imperial Napoleon tarnishes under the leaden light of a March sky and there is soil upon the green breeches. Rousseau weeping for his brain children beneath the trees seems only rather maudlin where before his cries ran down the avenues of revolution. The Vagabond, being no mathematician, can only wonder what an equilateral triangle can seem like in March...
According to the notice on the bulletin board the committee will have among the guests of honor, Patrick (Saint), ocC of Maudlin College, Dublin. Patrick played left shillalah for the Maudlin Maroons. Arrangements have been made to have special dinners served in the Dining Hall betwen 5.30 and 8 o'clock for House members and their guests. Tickets are on sale at $3 per couple, $2 for stags. Dancing will last from 10.15 until 3 o'clock. The House Committee consists of: Harper Woodward 2L, chairman, J. G. Brooks, '34, R. B. Cutler '35, J. L. Hoguet...
...visited the Mirror offices, devised a scenario which called for typewriters to click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed the roar of the presses getting out an extra. Grofé was so determined to give an accurate picture of the death house that he visited Sing Sing, pretending...