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Elucidated Planner Neylan: "In spite of all the propaganda that can be churned up, a projected war will be one of sordid materialism devoid of any vestige of idealism. The objective is raw materials...
...world-weary alumni were sipping their cool mint juleps in the Stork Club the other day, trying to forget an earth where every conceivable mystery is suspected of undermining civilization, and is therefore being duly investigated by Dies et al. Suddenly they recognized the presence of a sordid and stark reality. In the conversation of two of the season's buds at the next table, they learned of an all-pervading influence of another color...
...Catholic cries out against any civic philosophy which would degrade man to the position of a soulless pawn in a sordid game of power and prestige, or would seek to banish him from membership in the human family; ... he opposes any social philosophy which would regard man as a mere chattel in commercial competition for profit, or would set him at the throat of his fellows in a blind, brutish class struggle for existence...
...truth about Harvard's amateur football status has finally been revealed, a truth more sordid than any which fancy could have projected. Not content with hiring professional players like any other normal college, she has resorted to illegal methods staggering because of their very insolence...
...Katzenjammer Kid about bad ones. This season he has pulled leg after leg of flop after flop. Of Case History he wrote: "The stepmother goes off her chump." Of Come Across: "You see him in bed, which is no treat." Of The Devil Takes a Bride: "This is a sordid tale, my mates." Of the author of The Good: "An old Hudson (N. Y.) boy, Mr. Erskin . . . should hesitate about visiting back home." Of Thanks for Tomorrow: "Thanks for tomorrow, thanks for last week, thanks for next Friday-in fact, thanks for everything except last night...