Word: sobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sob sympathizer with the average murderer or murderess, I nevertheless feel that Edith Maxwell did not receive a fair trial...
After poking Communist fun for 18 long years at the "sob stories" and "personality stuff" of Capitalist journalism, Moscow's two great official newsorgans, Pravda ("Truth") and Izvestia ("News") went abruptly into intellectual reverse last week, came out simultaneously with a personality sob story about Dictator Joseph Stalin and his Old Mother...
First and most famed sob-sister in the U. S., Mrs. Bonfils is known to readers of the Hearst syndicate as Winifred Black but to readers of the San Francisco Examiner she is "Annie Laurie." Nearly 50 years a Hearstling, she dictates an average of nine articles a week-six "heart & home" pieces for the syndicate, three or more "Annie Laurie" columns for the Examiner. Much of her work is done from her bed. Over her bedroom mantel hangs a faded old photograph inscribed: "To my dear friend and associate, Winifred Black Bonfils, from her sincere admirer, William Randolph Hearst...
...vigorous opponent of sentimentality towards criminals, Mrs. Bonfils grows saccharine over little domestic tragedies. Nonetheless she hates being known as a sob-sister, snorts: "Most of them are sap sisters." A curious holdover from a bygone age, she still regards her professional harness with the romantic aura of an old firehorse: "I like newspapers and newspaper people and newspaper standards, and I like newspaper news too, and I'm just foolish enough to say so. . . . I'm proud of being, in a very humble way, a member of the good old newspaper gang-the kindest-hearted, quickest-witted...
...Dark Angel (Samuel Goldwyn) is a literate and tastefully arranged version of the celebrated sob-cinema in which Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman committed assault & battery on the emotions of the U. S. public in 1925. It is notable for the fine acting of its three attractive principals, a superior screen script and a climax which deserves a place on that roll of honor and profit which includes such classics as the life-preserver sequence in Cavalcade, the dance of the coffee rolls in The Gold Rush, the heroine's suicide in Anna Karenina...