Word: melodrama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Killers. This melodrama has a message. Act I (common-place): murder is committed in the back room of a speakeasy. Act II (excellent): a jury blunders through the process of finding the wrong person guilty. Act III (bewildering): prisoners jabber in jail, attempt a mass escape with much pistol spitting. Act IV (stupid): how to get an electric chair ready and a last-minute confession...
...MELODRAMA...
...indeed say his say against the established practice of medicine and law, and the fashion of childlessness. But all so casually that the reader need not take him seriously, is in fact far too engrossed with the tale to bother with the sociology, or the presence of occasional unwarranted melodrama. For Deluge is an excellent good yarn. It is also this month's Book of the Month, chosen by the famed club of that name and purchased by its 73,000 members...
...Take back your gold!" was the customary rebuff given the villain of old-time melodrama when he tried to use his ill-gotten gains for improper ends, and if Senator Borah's plan succeeds he will be able to clear the name of the Republican party by applying the same method to Harry F. Sinclair, whose contributions to the 1920 campaign fund of the party have been discovered to be not entirely from altruistic motives. But a necessary accompaniment to such a speech is the gold itself, and unhappily the Republicans have long ago seen the last of it disappear...
Another able melodrama-DRACULA...