Word: romanticizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A vigorous opponent of sentimentality towards criminals, Mrs. Bonfils grows saccharine over little domestic tragedies. Nonetheless she hates being known as a sob-sister, snorts: "Most of them are sap sisters." A curious holdover from a bygone age, she still regards her professional harness with the romantic aura of an...
Jack Buchan, in his romantic novels like The Path of the King, successfully flatters his middle-class public and also their beloved sovereign with such turns as: "We may all of us have King's blood in our veins. The Dago who blacked my boots in Vancouver may be...
This year's selection of plays is no exception to the rule of excellence. The most important fact in connection with last season was the trend toward a realisation of native values in American life. Many plays definitely American were produced successfully, and the four conspicuous ones are reproduced by...
At Geneva last week the Clark Gable of the League, romantic in his open-throated tennis shirt and Eton blazer at tea time, remained Captain Anthony Eden. This handsome young British Minister for League of Nations Affairs has been expertly cast by His Majesty's Government to play a...
Ever so many romantic ones have been publishing their memoris of late, and the Vagabond by force of example finds his own thoughts winging their way back a few evenings ago to live again a leaf from his own carefree yet, he hopes, not too unfruitful life. We learn only...