Word: sob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...securing fair and impartial trials cannot be shifted to the press. It must of necessity rest upon the members of the bar and other officers of the court. More than 20 years ago a writer on the subject said: 'Except for the slush and gush of the sob artists, there is very little offense chargeable against the press in which it is not led or abetted by lawyers, judges and other public officers...
...film script down to a sentimental skeleton. The original film had been aimed at the handkerchief trade; on TV the tear jerking scenes came as fast as in any soap opera. To compensate for his lack of mobility, Director Kulik borrowed heavily from Hollywood's sob expert, Ralph Edwards (This Is Your Life). Just like Edwards, the Lux show employed a tremulous, offstage voice to say such things as, "Yes, you came to New York, Jodie, to lose yourself in hard work . . . And then you ran away to England to forget . . ." Dorothy McGuire tried hard but was never able...
...good doctor realizes his mistake a couple of days later, but by that time the fathead is in the fire. Janet Leigh, a New York reporter, has convinced her editor that it would make a great sob story if the paper granted Jerry his last wish: "to see New York before I die." Janet makes her proposition to Jerry, and Dean doesn't have the heart-he has lost it to Janet at first sight-to disillusion...
Russian-born Violinist Spivakovsky learned to balance his repertory by experience. When he arrived in the U.S. in 1940 (at the age of 33), he already had 20 years of concert experience. He could spin out the Tchaikovsky Concerto with every Slavic sob intact, and he was the master, in lofty interpretations, of the Beethoven and Brahms concertos as well...
...attorney, the late Emanuel Bloch. to a Manhattan couple, Songwriter Abel (Strange Fruit) Meeropol and his wife. The Society for the Prevention of-Cruelty to Children charged that, in the hands of the Meeropols, the two orphans were ruthlessly exploited by Communist groups as fund-raising tools and propaganda sob stories. This week State Supreme Court Justice James B. M. McNally asked the children's grandmother, Mrs. Sophie Rosenberg, if she wanted the boys. In tears, she said: "That's my children. I want to take them, please." Then the judge asked her (for the record) whether...