Word: sob
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day at a Laborite caucus, Bevin faced sharper questions from his own party critics. He told what a Laborite described as a "sob story": had he been able to deal solely with British Jewry, a solution could have been found long ago, but the dangerous influence of American Jewry had been at work and robbed him of any chance of success. Buck-toothed Konni Zilliacus, pro-Soviet Laborite, tossed a charge of "playing power politics," accused Bevin of letting the strategic Iraq-Palestine pipeline † stand in the way of any solution. Reported one M.P.: "Ernie in his most...
Blab Brothers. Editor Markel then went after the panderers to "national ignorance and apathy"-the "radio rattlers," "newspaper know-it-alls," "sob sisters" and "blab brothers." Said he: "There is a great gullibility . . . about a prevalent radio and newspaper type-the Keyhole Kommentator. Even though his specialties are trivia and truffles, he does not hesitate to deal with tremendous things. . . . The formula is an ingenious one. Our commentator will report (A) that Gladys Gorgeous is going to be divorced next week, and (B) that Yugoslavia will attack us in six months. Comes next week and Gladys . . . gets her divorce...
...Lively (Sob!) though Educated...
...magic formula devised half a century ago by an insatiably curious young barrister-journalist named George Allardice Riddell. In the British police courts, Riddell found an inexhaustible treasure of news; he set his reporters to mining it. Unlike American scandal sheets, the News of the World has no "sob sister" interviews with murderers and mistresses; the paper never tries to tell a story before it is told in court, because of Britain's strict libel laws. But its deadpan, detailed coverage of trials-bigamy, rape, murder, adultery-gives Britons a hundred vicarious thrills a week...
...place of our present 48-state hodge-podge, and the setting up of a Supreme Court devoted to family law. "The establishment," he points out patiently, " of the system that most Western countries have found workable and indispensable." The Boston press ruckus came when he answered a matronly sob-sister with conjectures that, yes, a man ought to be able to find a wife by 25, and should have several children--in line with the idea of becoming a good citizen. The result was most horrid--banner headlines and a front-page picture...