Word: maudlinity
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...Jason (as a boy, eleven-year-old Gene Reynolds, as a young man, gangling James Stewart), who revolts against a life of hand-me-down clothes, unreasonable re- straints, two-fisted godliness. When Jason goes to war, the action, divided between battlefield and pasture, falls into great maudlin chunks. Teariest scene: President Lincoln (John Carradine) making Jason Wilkins sit right down in the Presidential chair and write a letter home...
...True Confession's three leading players, John Barrymore as the half-maudlin, crazily cunning pariah has far the smallest part but handles it with a Hogarthian swagger which threatens to eclipse his colleagues. Accused of stealing the picture, he remarked gallantly, "Nobody ever steals a picture from Carole Lombard...
...some occasions, such as a scene in which they bribe the dean of the college to keep the coach and let them play on the team, they are actually amusing, In many of their acts they become tiresome, vulgar, and maudlin. When one appears without his pants, it may be funny the first time, but not the second, or the third; and "Life Begins at College" is not even their third vehicle...
...Maudlin's thesis of Morgan control was supported not by evidence of security ownership but by the debatable theory of interlocking directorships-i. e. if a Morgan partner sits on the board of Guaranty Trust and a Guaranty Trust official sits on the board of a coal company, then the House of Morgan controls the coal company-not to mention the Guaranty Trust. But Governor Earle promptly opened up on "the witch doctors of Wall Street...
Meantime in Manhattan denials popped from nearly every important banking door. A sweeping Morgan denial took in almost everything short of War guilt. Chairman Jackson Reynolds of Manhattan's First National ("The Baker Bank"), an articulate banker, cracked: "A newspaper states that the author of the report is Maudlin. It seems to me that the report also is accurately characterized as maudlin...