Word: seamier
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After the rash of Kefauver-inspired moving pictures, it is a distinct pleasure to welcome a film which deals with some of the seamier sides of misdirected reform movements...
...Decline" is a series of historical sketches, in which the author produces at least hints at, a fabulous number of facts about the seamier side of the lives of the great. In the interests of humor, he limits his discussion to the homicidal, sexual, alcoholic, criminal, and bestial aspects...
...wrong. In this happily Buddless parody of Richardson's famous classic written in 18th Century idiom, Sinclair shows that though he may no longer be capable of striking Oil! he still has craft and subtlety enough to rig a strong derrick and drill some telling holes in the seamier sides of U.S. life. Not that his plumbings achieve any new level, for in Another Pamela, as "in almost everything he has written, Sinclair sticks close to his favorite theme: the way of life of the wealthy and the power that money...
...Ionian Islands in 1850 of mixed Anglo-Irish and Maltese stock, he emigrated to the U.S. at 19, slept in Manhattan doorways and vacant lots, finally went West to Cincinnati in 1871 and got a job on the Enquirer. Color-conscious Cincinnati readers liked his lush accounts of the seamier side of Queen City life, but were rocked to the heels when word got around that Reporter...
...light pastel color schemes are turning the place into something of a model classroom building. And in the spring, when Sever is finished, the ambitious gentlemen of the Building and Grounds Department hope to do the same for Harvard Hall. At last, it seems, the University is taking its seamier side in hand...