Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is more than mechanized glamour, cultivated beauty, and enchanting manner to Miss Katherine Hepburn. Yes, definitely more and even if her performance on the boards in "The Lake" was not an overwhelming triumph she is certainly as fascinating and as skilled an actress as the screen can present. "The...
Life insurance companies today know how principals of policies are swept away in the sentimental exhibitionism of relatives intent upon glorious burial of mortal clay.
Audiences for whom this sentimental fiction lacks the charm that might have excused its improbability, are likely to enjoy its score, including the Schubert melodies "Ave Maria," "Serenade," "Rosamunde." Good shot: Fräulein Eggerth (a cheerful blonde soprano, due next month to work in Hollywood) hitting high C in...
Of course a book of this nature is difficult to keep from falling into one definite pitfall, and it may probably be said that this one makes the stumble which few have escaped. Anything written today on a subject of this sort and in the manner of this book is...
Wrote Scripps-Howard's tart, smart Westbrook Pegler: "There is a sentimental, silver-threads-among-the-gold tradition that people of 60 years and up are uniformly wise and sweet and kind, and also pathetic. There is a conspiracy to write off all the laziness, incompetence, wastefulness and all...