Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What Every Woman Knows (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is that many a wife is responsible for her husband's success. The neat and genial comedy in which Sir James Barrie expressed this sentiment was first produced in the U. S. in 1908 with Maude Adams playing the lead, revived in 1926 for Helen Hayes. Helen Hayes has the same part in the cinema version- that of Maggie Wylie who marries a solemn young Scot against his will, helps him get elected to Parliament, manages his career for him so unobtrusively that he considers his accomplishments inspired by a glamorous outsider...
...Mall columns. It certainly warms my heart to read such manifestations of benign simplicity, such expression of hopeful belief in our modern world or professed disillusionment. Just the day before yesterday, another communicant, writing from Idaho, in a criticism of one of Professor Frankfurter recent speeches, expressed the same sentiment. I have no quarrel with such beauties of thought and soul--I myself dare even hope that perhaps one day that world of Truth and Virtue, and absolute honesty of institutions shall be my abode. But I thought Truth (whatever we know about it) only existed in heaven. In fact...
London, Oct. 25--Reports were current tonight that the British government will reject demands in Parliament for an arms inquiry similar to the recent investigation at Washington, despite growing sentiment in favor of such a hearing...
...controversy over cash payment of the Adjusted Service Certificates, not due for another decade, will be carried tomorrow to the convention floor, where sentiment is said to be preponderantly affirmative...
...cause they neither understand or care about. The myth of patriotism still supplies cannon with their fodder and armies with their generals. Will it always be thus? Alas, yes, until men begin to ask why they are fighting and refuse to give way to an indefinite emotional sentiment instilled in them by men who sit in easy chairs miles behind the line of action and direct the merciless and senseless slaughter...