Word: sobbingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sob stories and flimsy medical excuses will no longer allow students to skip their midyears and take makeup exams later, according to the rewording of the regulation this year. This is the first time the new ruling will take effect. It goes on as follows...
...Vagabond does not beat his head against the wall and rave. He does not fling his pretty butterflies into the fireplace and swear reform. He does not sob plaintively under the heavy roller: "Why? Why? Why?" Instead he says, "Neither it is good, nor it is bad; but only--it is here," and he marks on his calendar with large red crosses the four days of his doom, which are now less than a fortnight hence...
...Service. A high-priced super roving reporter, Paul Gallico, whose loyal readership followed him from the sport section of the New York News to the Saturday Evening Post, took as his assignment the Philadelphia child-murder case, described the arraignment of a 19-year-old girl defendant with true sob-stuff...
...them he instills his own technique. He broadcasts with his coat off and observes "Ten Radio Commandments": 1) Speak in a conversational tone; 2) Take your sermons not from the Bible, but from life; 3) Leave out the word "I"; 4) Neglect the needless; 5) No bunk; 6) No sob stuff; 7) Make the web of your sermon optimistic, cheerful; 8) Check and recheck your script before delivering . . . for absolute factual accuracy; 9) Keep the word "not" out of your sermon script; 10) Use no introduction. Plunge right into the middle of the sermon...
...place, and they are equally strong ideals, just as potent and less easily out-moded. Of these, the chief one is the growing unwillingness of the youth of the democratic world to settle its differences by bloodshed. In short, the post-war generations may have failed to thrill or sob yesterday; they may have spent the holiday at the movies or in other relaxations; and they have been bored with eulogies and speeches. Yet, despite their indifference to past wars and celebrations of past victories, this one thing they are sure of: they want no part in future wars...