Word: sentimentale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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A big British loan for reconstruction purposes was in the offing for Rebel Spain on condition of good behavior. The British, sentimental about kings and queens, were unofficially advancing the cause of a restoration of the Spanish monarchy. They were said to favor putting Juan, Alfonso XIII's second...
¶ Fast music increases metabolism and muscular energy, steps up the heartbeat, sends a rush of blood to the brain, elevates blood pressure. Slow, sentimental music produces opposite effects. Most stimulating are the swift tongue twisters of Gilbert & Sullivan. Most soothing: Kreisler's Old Refrain.
Last week TIME surveyed 100 typical weeklies and bi-weeklies in 30 States and found that: 1) Most of them had good business in 1938 and the early part of 1939; 2) boiler-plate and corn-cure ads are disappearing; 3) their news is ably written but editorials are either...
Whether it is actually "record-breaking crowds" that bring about these periodical hold-over weeks, or whether there is something mysterious going on behind the scenes, is a question that has always intrigued us. Strange it is that the hold-over bug seems so frequently to strike several theatres at...
are top-notch but are lifted from previous Coward shows in London. For the rest, except for some nimble lyrics, Set to Music is Coward lazily repeating himself, once or twice turning sentimental with his usual bad taste, or trusting to luck and Lillie.