Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrating his craft and the men who pursue it, he has not overlooked the fact that novel writing is also a craft in itself. He has mastered the new calling as thoroughly as his hero. Slim, mastered the job of wire stringing. The tale is by turns hardboiled, sentimental, tragic, humorous. But the toughness, the sentiment, the tragedy and the humor all belong to a man's world. Pride of work comes first, play second, true love a lame third...
Aside from press blasts, two public utterances helped to turn the tide of labor sentiment and end the general strike. One came from General Johnson, after his "conversion" by Mr. Neylan. Said he at Berkeley where he went to receive a Phi Beta Kappa key from the University of California: "The right of dissatisfied men to strike against a recalcitrant employer is inviolate. . . . But the general strike is quite another thing. It is a threat to the community. It is a menace to the Government. It is civil war. . . . When the means of food supply-milk to children, necessities...
...Joyce. His Erin is a Ruritania set to music, a light operetta in which broken hearts, murder, the open road, gentlemen disguised as tinkers, and a couple of good rough-&-tumbles lead inevitably to the old sweet finale. The Road to Nowhere's pages are damp with manly sentiment and the hero ("a man amongst men, simple men, kindly men, men who could be terrible, men who used strong language as a matter of course, but always men who could never hide their great hearts") is a little wearing. But the comicalities of Hibernian dialect cover a multitude...
...sneers at her mediocre mummery. In New York, when through a ruse she has a chance to make a hit. Menjou tries to spoil the play by "mugging." His wife deserts him for a young playwright. Menjou disappears, grows nobly poor and seedy. Wobbling between comedy and sentiment, The Great Flirtation is a raised eyebrow, uncertain and unalluring. Typical shot: the last, in which Menjou and Landi both act brave lies, the worst one winning...
...cotton petticoats for bandages when the homeland was imperiled in 1861-65, so many a Louisiana lady was last week offering her most cherished heirlooms for sale to raise money to crush the boss rule of blatant, butter-nosed Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long. By last week anti-Long sentiment was so bitter in the State that at a huge mass meeting in Baton Rouge, responsible citizens publicly urged the use of violence if their demands for economy and decent government were not satisfied. Strapping Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans declared: "I have dedicated my life...