Word: sordid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ruark's column had most of the sordid story next day. Luciano had been in Cuba since October. He had a bodyguard, and otherwise lived in the manner to which his earnings from women and the dope trade had accustomed him. Among the folk he had been seen with in Cuba were such divergent characters as Ralph Capone (Al's brother) and Frank Sinatra...
...more likely object of close scrutiny might rather be sports that openly accept the label of professional. Recent headlines have shown the dangers which are so tempting to their employees, with sordid tales of attempted bribery in the ranks of professional football and boxing following close upon each other's heels. A gambling industry of such size and resources as the one with which we seem to be saddled makes many more such attempts at insuring some desired victory inevitable, and some of them are quite likely to succeed without being detected...
...Congress Party's chief organizer and disciplinarian. He checked up on what Gandhi's followers ate, drank and wore. He passed on the party lists in provincial elections. He approved party-sponsored legislation, and personally drafted much of it. No detail was too unimportant or sordid for Boss Patel. Recently he took charge of negotiations between the Congress Party Ministry in Bombay and the Western Indian Turf Association, which wanted to renew its license for the Bombay racetrack. Patel, who has never seen a horse race, knew what the traffic would bear. He upped the license fee from...
...history of the labor injunction prior to 1932 is a sordid one," he read that Tuesday morning, in the weary tones of a tired preacher who knows his text by heart. The Norris-LaGuardia Act, he said, barred such injunctions as the court had issued; and-looking straight at the judge -the act was written "in plain language which any intelligent citizen can understand...
...connection can there be between Lena Horne's songs or Gypsy Rose Lee's navel and the election campaigns of responsible officials and progressive legislators? Jo Davidson's and Hannah Dorner's substitution of theatrical ballyhoo for concrete, vital political issues is a stupid and sordid insult to the voters of this nation. The work of other such ICCASPeople as Daily Worker Writer Howard Fast readily attests to Communist Front activity and possible Moscow affiliations...