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kids of seven and eight, was pure hokum, designed to provoke sympathy, singularizing paternity, ties that bind, one of the main pursuits.
In Over the Hill the tender mothering of a flock of unruly kids, getting their necks and ears washed in time for school, was hokum, singularizing mother love, service and sacrifice, one of the main sympathetic pursuits.
In She Done Him Wrong, rescuing the innocent country girl from white slavery was hokum. Haggling with the owner of the mission building over the price of a diamond lavaliere and then literally giving it to him at his own price to save the mission chief from eviction, was hokum. But those acts of commiseration and charity, though alien to the nature and character of a Diamond Lil, furthered her courting, the main sympathetic pursuit.
In My Man Godfrey the hero's interest in the jobless was hokum deluxe but at no time sticky. In fact, his night club on the city dump turned out to be a very profitable venture. His curtain sermon to the Vengeful One on snobbery and selfishness was a certified tearjerker, but that particular spasm of moralizing was anti-climactic, and solved the mystery of Godfrey's butling and living on the city dump, one of the main pursuits.
Mr. Deeds doling out millions to jobless farmers for land, tools and seed, was hokum, but that doling was a main pursuit. Incidentally, Deeds carefully secured his loans, each one, with notes and mortgages. (Interest rate wasn't mentioned.) The lovely newspaper reporter, using Deeds' particular depravity for a headline, was hokum with a big H, but strictly in line of duty, and probing Deeds' sanity, a main pursuit.
When Theodora shielded the young lady married to the college lad, that big sister stuff was hokum, but it intensified scandal. In placing the gurgling offspring of the college romance in the arms of its natural grandmother — the perpetually scandalized busybody who led the attack on Theodora's literary efforts — that act topped a sweeping victory over smug fear of scandal, a main pursuit.
Incarcerating the hero and heroine in Ladies of the Big House on the eve of their nuptials for a crime of
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