Word: sopped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every Saturday Night" and "The Preview Murder Mystery," contrary to the conventional double-feature bill that relies on one first-class picture to draw the public and lets the other pass as a sop to time, are both highly amusing. The two movies at the Paramount and Fenway, though not exceptional, have no periods of "let-down" and are consistently entertaining...
...tune of the unconsidered village wise man, the turkey-gobbler-villain banker, the solid youth who will go far, and the girl with bad blood who has come far enough. It was in orchestrating this hackneyed melody that Tinpanner Stong showed his real ability. And, whether as a sop to his own conscience or as a fillip to his fans' sentimental sadism, the conclusion was what cinemaddicts call unhappy. But readers closed the book in the faith that Hollywood's all-conquering love would surely be able to move this inconsiderable mountain...
...anthology, but with the weekly encouragement of such smartcharts as the New Yorker, such pseudo-smart-charts as Ballyhoo, smart publishers are beginning to see that anything (within reason) goes. The Bedroom Companion, or A Cold Night's Entertainment: Being A CURE for Man's Neuroses, A SOP to His FRUSTRATIONS, A Nightcap of Forbidden Ballads, Discerning PICTURES, Scurrilous Essays, in fine A Steaming Bracer for THE FORGOTTEN MALE sounded like a bold bid for man's attention. Readers who were won by its ballyhoo found it only a mildly entertaining, conventionally improper, publisher's stunt...
...first editorial in a leading Boston paper says, in substance, that we need a navy big enough to insure peace. With what singular case can this paper soar to the heights of asinity! This smoky contradiction implies that we need a bigger navy, but just to satisfy everybody, a sop is thrown peacewards. A big navy-of-course can only lead to peace. But perhaps there are a few people left who are so dense that they can't quite cope with this subtlety...
...Missouri," was rewarded after the New Deal's victory by being made the biggest Missourian in the Roosevelt official family. Early last autumn, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper came to the conclusion that he and Mr. Mitchell could not get along, asked for his resignation. As a sop, Mr. Mitchell was offered a job in the graveyard of RFC's legal department or as Minister to Rumania. But Mr. Mitchell did not want to leave the Department of Commerce, hung on there from week to week by repeatedly promising Secretary Roper that very shortly he would produce evidence...