Word: sob
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Matanuska colonists have had their spuds and fodder snowed under (TIME, Oct. 23, p. 19), we look forward to another epidemic of new sob stories drooling over the hardships for which this region is celebrated...
Last week a jury, all but one of whom were parents, tried Louis Greenfield. Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz staged the defense, free of charge, but his renowned theatrical talents were scarcely needed. Euthanasia defendants are seldom convicted. Father Greenfield's story made the jurors sob. He said...
...Tuesday to autograph copies of his latest book, "Wickford Point," which features a Harvard Housemaster turned novelist. Seated behind an imposing pile of his latest works, Marquand was guarded from a rush of autograph-seekers which failed to materialize, by an efficient lady literary agent and a high-brow sob sister from the Transcript (pronounced Trahnscript) for which he worked in its palmier days...
...Mooney night was the most celebrated We, the People ever staged, but a certain Mr. X's six minutes last week provided a new high in schmalz. When tear-jerking Announcer Gabriel Heatter got to Mr. X there was a foggy sob in his voice. "On the afternoon of June 25, 1931," he lamented, "to a hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, police brought a well-dressed man who had collapsed on a city street. . . . Somewhere, somehow the link that bound him to the past had snapped. . . . The man became known as Mr. X and that man stands beside me tonight...
...which reputedly scared the British Government out of sticking up for Czechoslovakia. The "Cliveden Set" became a synonym for a sort of Fifth Column working on behalf of Germany behind the back of the British Government. Last week the Hostess of Cliveden did her best to convince a Manhattan sob sister that this conception was all wrong...