Word: sordidity
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...been a journalist for years. He was a correspondent in Berlin in 1918-19. His back-page feature stories for the Chicago Daily News were the best of their kind. They were the reactions of a rather peculiar brand of sentimentalist to the more simple and sordid phases of existence. They have been collected under the title A Thousand and One Nights in Chicago...
...sunshine,--over world problems and concerns that were of common interest to them both. No one yet knows the immense number of international difficulties, small and great, that have been settled in this informal way at Geneva, between the League delegates of the nations most concerned. Much of the sordid selfishness and practically all of the secrecy of the old diplomacy that brought on the war has vanished from this open and friendly diplomacy at the seat of the League, Colonel Wade, an English interpreter to the Assembly, told me that the League was to him "a big friendly international...
...limited population of a desert is- land, Robinson Crusoe would have about as much charm as a shopping list. What to us is the essence of romance would be to him the acme of the commonplace. A photographic description of the dullest incidents of daily life in the sordid haunts of civilization, on the other hand, would become to him a golden fairytale, a realization of all his fondest dreams, colored at once with reminiscence and with hope...
...seem absurd to bar a standard work like Webster; but New England as a whole and Boston in particular have a reputation to sustain. Law and Order, Liberty, and the Constitution have always found staunch support in the much maligned New England conscience. Other states may continue in their sordid ruts interpreting and tampering with the old traditions to suit their shifting advantages, but not so Massachusetts. Webster's is dangerous; the edict has gone forth; let it be abolished, even tho this mean Funk and Wagnall's, phonetic spelling and a thoro reconstruction of the language thruout the land...
...Hearst himself has retired to his home in California to get away from all this sordid business of politics. In fact he has just telegraphed to the expectant public, through the medium of the Brooklyn "Eagle": "I am a rancher enjoying life on the high hills overlooking the broad Pacific. If you want to talk about Herefords I will talk to you,--but not politics. I have no ambition to get into politics unless there be some special reason, and I don't see any special reason...