Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like one of his cabarets, Billy Rose's first book has a dish for almost every taste. Smeared over most of them is a thick paste of sentimental egotism; the reader can no more escape Billy Rose ("I'm a ham-boned, hickory-smoked, and sugar-cured") than...
For a jubilee, these were somewhat chilly and impersonal phrases, and it was perhaps significant that of all the songs written for the occasion, one of the most popular with the Komsomoltsy themselves was a sentimental little lyric entitled Farewell, Accordion Player. It records the unhappiness of the girls in...
There being no living horse to run against Citation in a winner-take-all race, many a sentimental horseplayer in the stands tried to fill out the empty track with bygone horses. How would Citation look against Equipoise, Count Fleet, Exterminator? How far off the pace, or how far in...
"The average Austrian," says Bemelmans, "is like the cocker spaniel, helplessly affectionate and sentimental." Bemelmans himself has been a U.S. citizen since he was a young man, but his native affectionateness and sentimentality (he was raised in the Tyrol) still run like a groundswell under his clear prose and brilliantly...
Apartment for Peggy (20th Century-Fox) takes a sentimental look at G.I. students and their brides, and finds them a cozy, uncomplicated lot. Like other young couples, they need better housing, larger incomes and babies. Unlike their contemporaries, they have a daily opportunity to find out what some of the...