Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bowery" is a tale of the lower castes of New York in the gay nineties. The cast gives a fair idea of the thing; since there is Jackle Cooper, there is sticky and unpleasant sentiment. Since Wallace Beery is present, there is heavy comedy; since George Raft is on the scene there is someone tough and light and virile. All these things, predicted from a reading of the east, come true. Nevertheless, the show is entertaining. Chuck Connors, a saloonkeeper, wallows about in a sea of beer and oaths, delivering beautiful blows to the jaws of his enemies...
William Graham Sumner was a great teacher. Mr. Keller is an apt, therefore a reverent, pupil. And in this little book, the disciple has painted the master and the man, wholly, alive, with appropriate sentiment. Mr. Keller disclaims all intent of order. One by one, indiscriminately, he picks out the characteristics of his subject and illustrates them with anecdote and incidental background. The result, as we shall see, is something more than a vivid memoir...
...muckraking days are helpful in creating a sentiment so as to secure public approval for drastic reforms, but they also tend to drive capital to hiding places, where no amount of coaxing or bludgeoning does any good. Investors need to be reassured in the immediate future as to the extent of the inflation which the administration may carry on if psychological factors are not to assume an importance which they ought by no means to have nowadays. Several weeks ago there was a better feeling among owners of money than today. Talk of inflation has brought apprehensions. When...
...tyro, for the tyro always succeeds in producing an unconvincing imitation, not of Miss Stein, but of Ernest Hemingway. It would be very depressing indeed if "Winter in Davos" were really the best story Hound and Horn cajoled from its competitors, for its mode is transparent and its sentiment intolerably jejune. Mr. Cunningham is something else again; he has obviously found a technique of his own, and has a good deal to say with...
...Roosevelt's sleeping hours; the second is the farm bloc. A few days ago Governor Langer of Nebraska ordered an embargo on all wheat exports from the state, to be enforced, if necessary, by the militia; Milo Reno is organizing another general farmer's strike; there has been increasing sentiment built up for inflation. These were not casual outbursts, but evidence of the farmer's feeling that he has been excluded from the Recovery program, that his situation has become and is becoming worse through the growing disparity between agricultural and industrial prices. Even as popular...