Word: maudlinly
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...must have been in March that Johnson bade him go kick a stone. The gilt shimmer of Imperial Napoleon tarnishes under the leaden light of a March sky and there is soil upon the green breeches. Rousseau weeping for his brain children beneath the trees seems only rather maudlin where before his cries ran down the avenues of revolution. The Vagabond, being no mathematician, can only wonder what an equilateral triangle can seem like in March...
According to the notice on the bulletin board the committee will have among the guests of honor, Patrick (Saint), ocC of Maudlin College, Dublin. Patrick played left shillalah for the Maudlin Maroons. Arrangements have been made to have special dinners served in the Dining Hall betwen 5.30 and 8 o'clock for House members and their guests. Tickets are on sale at $3 per couple, $2 for stags. Dancing will last from 10.15 until 3 o'clock. The House Committee consists of: Harper Woodward 2L, chairman, J. G. Brooks, '34, R. B. Cutler '35, J. L. Hoguet...
...visited the Mirror offices, devised a scenario which called for typewriters to click out hectically the routine news of the day, for a harp to represent the society editor calling for a copyboy, for a big bass horn to bellow like the managing editor. A sob sister had her maudlin, banal bit. Piccolos and traps described the comic-strip antics of Mickey Mouse. Revolver shots expressed murder headlines. Drums drummed the roar of the presses getting out an extra. Grofé was so determined to give an accurate picture of the death house that he visited Sing Sing, pretending...
...that the boss's wife (Helen Vinson) had stopped loving her husband. So long as Hamilton MacFadden, who directed and adapted the picture, follows this simple theme, fair program entertainment results. But after Office Girl (Sally Eilers) has married Boss (Ralph Bellamy) the triangle is rearranged as a maudlin contest between Bellamy and Helen Vinson for custody of their violin-playing prodigy daughter (Karol Kay). The picture as cut for its Hollywood preview included a scene which for its power to embarrass the audience took rank with anything recently produced by the cinema-Miss Eilers pressing to her lips...
...direction is utterly puerlle and lacking in delicacy. There are scenes of Mr. Bancroft bellowing a prayer to heaven in the pouring rain upon the death of his son, there is a long scene of his wife dying in child birth, there are innumerable maudlin, sentimental shots which have no place in any picture and when laid on with the trowel of Mr. Bancroft they become unthinkable...