Word: sob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progressed to a juvenile radio program which she surprisingly forsook this winter to entertain at a Manhattan night club called Versailles, a house where innocence is as rare as courtesy. There Miss Green did impersonations, the most painful of which-a re-enactment of Luise Rainer's big sob scene in The Great Ziegfeld-she repeats in Babes In Arms. Not only because of her physical appearance but because of her propensity for rolling her eyes and giving the customers a continuous big square-mouthed smile, Miss Green is constantly, if unintentionally, in the throes of an imitation...
...screech of brakes-a crash! a human cry. Muffled steps, a sob, a childish plea...
...young Publisher Hearst would hire a special train to get his news crew to the scene of a fire; when publisher & reporters had fabulous fun at Hearst's house in Sausalito; when famed "Annie Laurie" (Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils), first of the expert Hearst tearjerkers, wrote her classic sob stories about "Little Jim," the crippled child of a drunken prostitute, which drew $20,000 from the pockets of sympathetic Examiner readers; and when incorrigible Reporter Eddie Morphy made San Franciscans weep just as loudly over a destitute orphaned Irish family who existed only in his mind...
...composer in his debut as a concert conductor. The audience found Grofe's own jazzy, tuneful, descriptive music, as well as the numerous other works he played, good listening, often good for a laugh. The Symphony in Steel employed a siren and pneumatic drills. The Tchaikovskian Sob Sister from Tabloid Suite was neatly assembled, bu! Hollywood proved most successful, with the banging and scraping of carpenters and electricians, the ennui of "stand-ins." the barking of a director, a "Precision Routine" in which the percussion section drummed on its shoes with rhythmic ingenuity to suggest a dance routine. Always...
Professionally shocking, therefore, was a statement issued in France last week by Mrs. Simpson which in effect branded the editor of the Washington Star as a gossipmonger and sob-writer of the lowest order. In Cannes, Mrs. Simpson announced to the world Press: ". . . Mrs. Simpson states that Mr. Noyes is not her cousin. . . . Neither the Duke of Windsor nor Mrs. Simpson ever gave Mr. Noyes any kind of interview. . . . Noyes was received at dinner by King Edward, but . . . the conversation on that occasion was solely of a general nature and took at no time the confidential turn indicated by Noyes...