Word: sob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they may be. Sentimental, sloppy 'sob stuff' you do get from America. But immorality never...
Stifling a sob and remembering that he was twenty-eight...
...this thought: why might anti-feminist Miss Butler not find in Mrs. Reporter Adams an excellent example of the kind of unsex-conscious industry she would like to see women exhibit in politics? Scarcely any metropolitan newspaper today is without women on its staff; not only as editrixes of sob columns, advice to the socially incompetent, fashion pages and society notes, but also as literary and dramatic critics, cartoonists, humorists and "straight" news reporters like Mrs. Reporter Adams. These daughters of journalism ask no favors and receive none because they happen to wear skirts instead of trousers.; nor do they...
...examples of the same casuistry on a scale too large to be obvious? What did they think of newspapers like the Cleveland Times, which routed out an aged invalid lady, trundled her around the city in a motor car eagerly lent and frequently mentioned in the subsequent sob-story, named shops and hotels which elaborately displayed their wares and hospitality to her and the Times reporter, and trundled her home amid a short-hand account of her boundless gratitude to all the super-generous publicists concerned? What did they think of the St. Paul Pioneer Press which published a full...
...Dolores Del Rio) waves good-bye to her Captain Flagg, not with the tricolor of France nor the stars and stripes of the U. S., but with the bedclothes. After this highpoint (which, to be frank seems to have been reached by accident) the scenario settles down some banal sob hokum about ' mother's boy," equally unfortunate comic relief by the inevitable Jewish-Irish pair of privates, and painful insinuation that Sergeant Quirt's was a case of true love for the French ma'm'selle...