Word: mawkishness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trade mark, symbol, place-many people can only guess. But in the New York Senate they know what lies behind the name: it is a man. State Senator Caleb H. Baumes, short, sparse, with drooped moustache and thin white hair, sponsored the Baumes laws, sputtered and spumed "mawkish sentiment" at critics who called them cruel, lived to see his name rise to a disembodied symbol of "punishment to fit the crime...
...dramatic construction, so nobody is annoyed because the hero appears in a cutaway with only a sash to suggest his outlandish time and environment. The naivetÉ of this Provincetown presentation adds immensely to its charm, though once in a while there is a trace of mawkish self-consciousness...
...company of pallid medical students in an overlighted surgical theatre, peering round-eyed, in sadistic ecstasy, while an instructor surgeon, cowled and gloved, removed and lectured upon the guts of a tortured dog. This gruesome spectacle, set forth in all its horrid details in the pages of the more mawkish journals, has induced many a kind-hearted madame to weep into her breakfast dish of tea, has spurred many a feeling gentleman to dash off a letter of protest to an editor. Quite rightly. For however luridly exaggerated by popular imagination, the fact that it is occasionally necessary to cause...
...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