10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOB STUFF»
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sob stuff in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
Sir, I beg to oppose. MR. BLUNDELL: On a point of explanation, the apostle of
sob-stuff in this Council is the hon. Member for the Coast. THE Arroamav
GENERAL: It was in the speech of the hon. Member for Rift Valley, unless I am
quite wrong ...
2
A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...
Cf. sob stuff. sob story. A hard-luck story: C.20: coll. >, by 1940, S.E. sob stuff.
Intentional and, gen., excessive sentimentality (to appeal to the emotions—and
often the pocket): orig. (ca. 1919) US; anglicised, by 1921, as a coll., now verging
on ...
Eric Partridge, Paul Beale,
1984
3
Lyle Saxon: A Critical Biography
5 In a letter to his Aunt Maude, written only a few days after the fire, he confides: I
worked terribly hard on that story, and thought it was complete and full of
information, but I didn't think much of the sob-stuff at the top — it was too sloppy, ...
4
The Man He Became: How FDR Defied Polio to Win the Presidency
In the tough fraternity of journalism, passages like those were known by the
elegant shorthand term “sob stuff.” Sob stuff entertained readers by a frank
appeal to the satisfying emotion of pity, the reassuring feeling that the other fellow
, even the ...
5
Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, ...
We ought to develop some sort of propaganda . . . meet sob stuff with sob stuff
and show how the homes are actually being broken up by the introduction and
continuation of homework.”% The league understood women to be a permanent
part ...
Landon R. Y. Storrs,
2000
6
Private Wealth and Public Life: Foundation Philanthropy and ...
Mothers' pensions, Representative Begg argued, offered "the most wonderful
opportunity for a lot of sob stuff."28 "Sob stuff" is politically irresistible. It also
frequently goes hand in hand with chicanery. Anyone wishing a better
understanding of ...
7
The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound to John Quinn: 1915–1924
Bar the sob stuff over Whitman "inestimable loss that we don't know whether the
gt. bard at age of 14 had pimples on his neck" etc (Back wash of Ste Beuve.) (
Must confess that the most pleasing compatriots I have met (personally) for some
...
Ezra Pound, Timothy Materer,
1991
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Catalog of copyright entries: Books. Part, group 1
Clark (It. D.) Camp Lewis. 7056. Clark (S. H.) Sob stuff. 450. CInrk (S. J. Duncan-)
See Duncan- Clark (S. J.) Clark (W. A.) Trust problem. 6017. Clark (W. E.)
Outlines of lectures on economics. 601. Clark & Crockard. Clark (S.H.) Sob stuff.
450.
... Sob stuff, sob stuff! — gets 'em every time. Why Ward wouldn't know a crucifix if
he was nailed to one. He just thinks the old man double-crossed him." An official
of the U. S. Secret Service from Washington, D. C, by the name of G. C. ...
10
Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts
"Sob-stuff" on the cinema is no better than sob-stuff anywhere else. It consists in
referring to some poignant situation in life. The clumsiness of the allusion or
representation does not affect the poignancy. It is not the quality of the
representation ...
Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes,
1980
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOB STUFF»
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5 Facts That Will Blow 'Lord of the Rings' Fans' Minds
"That's all sob stuff. No, of course, I didn't. If you're a youngish man and you don't want to be made fun of, you say you're writing for children. At any rate, children ... «WhoSay, Jan 15»
From trenches to tablecloths
Princess Turns Shopgirl for a Day... it was a good story, it involved “sob stuff and snob appeal”, and it began in the mud-filled trenches of the First World War. «Yorkshire Post, Apr 14»
Review: The Rose Tattoo
The Pembroke Players present a great adaption that masters the fine lines between humour and ridiculousness, romance and sob stuff to give a great laugh as ... «Varsity Online, Nov 12»
'The Death of Bunny Munro': An Extract from Nick Cave's Latest Novel
There is silence on the other end of the line then a broken, faraway sob. .... that joyful pussy, ah man, and that unfathomable sob stuff – and he lays back against ... «The Quietus, Jul 09»