Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forced NRA to walk a tight-rope on "open" and ''closed" shops. General Johnson banished those words from NRA's dictionary but that did not settle the issue. But National Labor Board has conducted workers' plebiscites in an effort to determine the strength of union sentiment in strike-closed shops. But even where a majority favors union representation, the law nowhere gives that majority the right to bargain collectively for a non-union minority...
...background of that baronial Ireland which his own plays made popular, Mr. Fiske O'Hara disports with his comely daughters, Janet Gaynor and Margaret Lindsay. All is a haze of moss, lichen, and the soft tints of old stone, with a plethora of brogue and much quasi-Irish sentiment, which is to say that "Paddy" is closely related to "Sweetheart Darlin'," and at a respectful distance from Synge and Lady Gregory. Warner Baxter is very rich, the Adairs are genteel but poor, and Mr. Walter Connolly is very poor. Everyone is in love throughout the play, but with different persons...
...boost prices appreciably or hold them up. Oklahoma's Senator Thomas, field marshal of the inflationary forces, was loosely threatening a march of 1,000,000 men on Washington unless there was a great outpouring of printing-press money. His polls of Congress showed a 20-to-1 sentiment in favor of quick inflation. Nevada's Senator Pittman tried to interest the White House in inflation by the free silver route. In Idaho Senator Borah rumbled: "Infla-tion is indispensable to the success of the NRA." A growing demand was developing for the Treasury to pay off depositors...
...happy combination of sentiment, metaphysical poetry and A Connecticut Yankee at King Arthur's Court, Berkeley Square has all the qualifications of a succes d'estime and most qualifications for success at the box office. Producer Jesse Lasky-one of the few oldtime cinemagnates who have kept up with the times-did a first-rate job which began with hiring Frank Lloyd, who made Cavalcade, to direct; borrowing Leslie Howard, who played the rôle in John Balderston's play, to act Peter Standish; using a new British ingénue, Heather Angel, for Helen Pettigrew...
...Edward J. O'Brien (editor of an annual Best Short Stories] is any judge Author George Milburn is a writer to keep an eye on. Of the 18 stories in No More Trumpets, two have been printed in O'Brien anthologies. Readers who must have sentiment, romance, sweetness had best leave Author Milburn alone: his hard, realistic sketches may set their teeth on edge. Readers who like their U. S. literature homely and indigenous should enjoy his stories...