Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lynn Fontanne, said he to himself and properties and photography will at last get their share of criticism. But this plan never worked out. With the first scene the reviewer is in the thick of a play which combines the brittle wit of Oscar Wilde with the mellow sentiment of "Der Kongress Tanzt." Old Vienna, with its archdukes and New Vienna with its psychoanalysts and yeast specialists. And in ten minutes the Lunt family is forgotten...
...much for Vienna, now for Robert Sherwood and his Broadway wit. This play offers more than sentiment and satire. It offers the quintessence of bubbling dialogue, refined repartee and waltzing love-scenes. It represents all the nuances and emotional fires which lie behind the less bourgeois legends, from Prince Charlie to Prince Mike Romanoff...
This year's Bonus demonstration did not compare in size or spirit with last year's. Bonus sentiment in Congress was at low ebb. The Senate had lately rejected prepayment by a vote of 60-to-28. In the House only 26 members out of the necessary 145 could be found to sign a petition to call up such a measure. President Roosevelt's broad relief program detracted from popular support of a special class demand...
...this atmosphere, sad-eyed young Dr. Rosenberg arrived in London, utterly ignorant of the extent of anti-Nazi sentiment in Britain. British newspapers welcomed him with the reminder that in Germany he is known as Der Judefresser ("The Jew Gobbler") and that he had once said...
...Farmers' Holiday Association, under rough-spoken Milo Reno, raucously voted another farm strike May 13. That it. like last year's, would end in violence and failure was the foregone conclusion of all but the most disgruntled Iowa farmers. The conservative American Farm Bureau Federation surveyed rural sentiment in eleven States, reported that only a tiny fraction of farmers support the strike idea...