Word: sentimentales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ In Richmond, Va., litigation brought to light a sentimental bequest which sounded as though it had been copied straight from a Civil War ballad. Valentine Browne Lawless, a soldier killed in Europe in 1944, had left $3,000 to provide "one perfect rose of any color to be sent...
For years, Hollywood partygoers have shrieked with laughter at the impromptu gags and satirical songs of Radio Writer Abe Burrows (TIME, Feb. 11, 1946). But his celebrated fans have kept Abe jealously to themselves, assuring him that the sentimental public would never appreciate his acidly unsentimental humor. Columnist Earl Wilson...
Goo & Starch. Sedoi's sentimental ballads and starchy marching songs first began to catch on ten years ago. His big break was Nightingale, which won him his first Stalin prize (1944). Now he rates special fees, living and working quarters.
The Long Night is an ambitious movie, with some glaring faults. Much of it is too loud, too sentimental, too insistent on giving grand-scale social meaning to an essentially personal story. Although the acting is unusually sincere, Vincent Price is too florid even for his florid role; Henry Fonda...
El Toro, the bewildered victim, is nominally "owned" by a lewd fat man, Vince Vanneman, who fixes every one of his fights on a coast-to-coast tour that Eddie promotes into a triumphal march. Nick, the powerful and deadly racketeer who actually owns El Toro as he owns Eddie...