Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At varying times it is sentimental, heavily, socially satirical, slapstick. But despite the romances and lampoons and picturesqueness, it is the reliable spirit of low comedy which prevails. There is a comical, hungry goat, and there is Mr. Reginald Carrington as a lovable old Lord who can scarcely move without...
He was in San Francisco waiting to sail for Australia with Willie Collier and a road company of The Dictator when the 1906 earthquake occurred. Having spent the previous night away from home unexpectedly, he had nothing to put on but a full dress suit. In the bewildered, terrified crowds...
Since it became possible for millions of the plain people to hear, elect and exalt their favorite minstrels overnight, it has become suitable for these favorites to cap their professional careers, within a few months of their arrival at the broadcasting station SUCCESS, by publishing their memoirs. It was little...
Alcide Tombarel, artist, manque, aristocrat, judge of good wine, is the hero of Author William J. Locke's latest book. Tombarel, an artist who had not been able to make his hands behave, gave up art for surveying, then became Mayor of Creille, tiny mountain village in the Maritime...
No defensive apologist, Author Lawrence moves briskly to attack settled notions. Says he: "Boccaccio at his hottest seems to me less pornographic than Pamela or Clarissa Harlowe or even Jane Eyre, or a host of modern books or films which pass uncensored. At the same time Wagner's Tristan...