Word: sordid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason to be ashamed [TIME, Sept. 12] of the "stuff" she turns out for radio listeners. After all, it's a living. It is rather those, like myself, who adjust their day's schedule in order not to miss the next episode of these dreary, sordid narratives who should feel ashamed. I wonder if all of us addicts should not consult a psychiatrist...
...small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME, April...
...show to themselves, Amateur Verne Alkire walked away with three prizes. But her conventional paintings of boats in a harbor, gladiolas, and a nursery, daubed between kitchen and barnyard duties, were no closer to the Illinois prairies than ex-Coastguardman Garo Antreasian's carefully composed painting of a sordid street in Indianapolis' South Side, which took grand prize at the Old Northwest...
...small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME. April...
...Thomas Merton's history of the Trappists since the founding of their order in the 12th Century. For an authorized account, the book has moments of uncommon candor. According to Merton, the history of many 17th Century Trappist monasteries "was nothing but a series of petty and sordid intrigues." Forgotten was the strict, humble, ascetic life once outlined by St. Benedict. "The monks . . . had all the comforts of the upper class, with servants and feather beds in their own private apartments." By the 18th Century, Trappist novices were having it so nice that "noble and bourgeois families chose such...