Word: mawkish
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...speech at Oakland, he announced his criticism of the Administration?" At last we are a part of the diplomatic game of Europe. We become entangled in this struggle of secret purposes "?and his own platform ?"The United States, despite the blandishments of European statesmen or the mawkish appeals of our own, will be neither policeman nor collector abroad...
...their way is one of pleasantness and their pathway, thank heaven, is diametrically opposed to the current flourishing, mawkish school of the Be-Beautiful-And-Be-Damned sort of pen-wielders
...which this week's is not. As it is, this eleven playlet after the better Hopwood manner (you know where the scene is laid) is worth a hundred "Getting Gertie's Garters" and "Demi-Virgins", and shows what vaudeville can be when it tries to break the spell the mawkish hack writers. Mr. Mason has all the "fat" lines, and he is on the crest of the wave all the time. The rafters were loosened and the audience was left hungry for more...
...pieces of verse, "Outside the Hospital," by R. Jerries, is the better. It shows delicacy of touch and a commendable avoidance of mawkish sentiment. The sonnet "To a Cruel Beauty," by G. L. Kobbe '03, loses its charm and spontaneity through its intricacy of expression in some places...
...author. No amount of "realistic" phrasing can cover the gaping breaks in the plot. The greatest philosophers and moralists have wrangled over the problem upon which this story is based, and the solution given here besides being inadequate, is morbid. The effect left by the story is one of mawkish sentiment...