Word: maudlinly
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...point quail at 50 yards. When, at book's end. Skeeter has to give up Lady to her true owner, the scene is enough to pierce the heart of the most hardened dogcatcher. No doubt about it-Novelist Street has written him a little old classic of the maudlin school...
...Hecht has assaulted the world as a gifted playwright (The Front Page}, maudlin novelist (A Jew in Love), bright essayist (A Guide for the Bedeviled} and cantankerous pamphleteer for Zionism...
...fascinating cadavers." Writes Hecht nostalgically of those days: "That was happiness." The weakness of Hecht's armor was that it left him in sketchy underwear whenever he took it off. Like many an other supposedly invulnerable fellow, he was exposed, when in the buff, as more of a maudlin breast-beater than a Front Page chesty. Swept up by the Chicago literary movement just before World War I, he tried to temper his fondness for cadavers with pious offerings at the shrine of The Little Review. In its inner circle a young man might hear anything from a first...
Elinor Fuchs handled the part of Millie, his girl friend, with the nervous intensity necessary to the situation, Burdened with some maudlin lines, Tom Whedon did a reasonable job in the somewhat poorly integrated character of Stan...
...Skelton's second attempt in as many pictures to play it straight. If he had succeeded, The Great Diamond Robbery might have been an even more amusing picture than Half a Hero (TIME, Nov. 9). Instead, the stiff upper lip of a surprisingly mature wit goes into a maudlin flap of baby talk before the end of the first reel. Nevertheless, the plot is so neatly stacked, and the rest of the players so well handled by Director Robert Z. Leonard, that the moviegoer gets a pretty good deal...