Word: maudlin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...according to its concept. But it isn't actually, at least of late. For Dartmouth men have begun to fidget in their seats when the telegrams are read, and they no longer join so heartily in the singing. They have begun to think of Dartmouth Night as mawkish and maudlin, and they are all for washing it out of the pretty green picture...
...Maudlin Sympathy...
...this maudlin sympathy for criminals...
...This maudlin hocuspocus, together with far too much stunting and propagandizing, slows down the tempo of the show to a very ordinary invalid's walk. If the fabulous invalid survives, it will be thanks more to its own constitution than to the ministrations of Broadway's highest-paid, by-appointment-only play doctors...
More remarkable than the fact that one of the most active gadders in the U. S. can find time to turn out a daily column is the fact that in doing so she has consistently avoided making serious boners. Without being maudlin or saying an ill word of anyone, she generally manages to say what she means. But most gratifying to millions of women readers who write her thousands of letters is Mrs. Roosevelt's ability to make the nation's most exalted household seem like anybody else's: "The White House is crowded with guests these...