Word: sentimentality
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...rest of the cast as well as the atmosphere of the picture centers around him. It is fortunate for the players are unable to come up to this standard. Norma Shearer lends sentiment and charm to the portrayal of Elizabeth Barrett, which adapts itself rather well to the mid-Victorian era, but as usual her emotions are more shimmering than deep. Her bursting good-health is a bit upsetting when applied to a helpless invalid. Frederick March, as her suitor, Robert Browning, succeeds in winning her hand by is a rather doubtful Browning. But few would expect Mr. March...
...right to dream of winning. . . . We hope that Mayor LaGuardia, who has shown plenty of guts in the past, will not be frightened by the squeamish squawks he's hearing now from clergymen and others. . . . The same people now squawking against the lottery are those who said public sentiment was against Repeal, and then were proved so very wrong when the votes were counted...
Less lyric than his fellow-poet, Auden writes with more explicit scorn of "the old gang," dedicates his book with the forthright sentiment...
...Hopeful that a binding knot of sentiment was tied between the Reichswehr and himself recently when every officer and soldier was made to swear personal loyalty to him, Realmleader Hitler sought to tug this knot tighter last week by announcing that he will exercise his powers of pardon exclusively in favor of members of the Reichswehr...
...celebrating his craft and the men who pursue it, he has not overlooked the fact that novel writing is also a craft in itself. He has mastered the new calling as thoroughly as his hero. Slim, mastered the job of wire stringing. The tale is by turns hardboiled, sentimental, tragic, humorous. But the toughness, the sentiment, the tragedy and the humor all belong to a man's world. Pride of work comes first, play second, true love a lame third...