Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bishop Lawrence, in referring to Business, Chemistry and Fine Arts as the three unappreciated factors in American life today, repudiated the widely held notion that business was "essentially worldly or sordid". "As a Bishop with the blood of business stock in me, I claim that essentially the calling of business has in it the elements of faith, character, romance and chivalry, associated with the highest callings...
...corruption, of damaging testimony, of venal politics. Possibly there is a righteous feeling among the publishers that this governmental scandal should have the widest publicity to impress its iniquity upon the public more emphatically. But for the great majority, who are merely sickened by the reappearance of the "sordid detail" after another, who have no axe to grind, and who are well aware that this is not the first instance of corruption in American politics, the "Teapot Dome" has long since lost its news value...
While the University has been busying itself with a Republican Club, and a Democratic Club and a Hiram Johnson Club, Dartmouth College has progressed so far as to form a Club for Independent Political Action. "The sordid details of the political corruption that involves the leading politicians of both the Republican and Democratic parties" has awakened Dartmouth to the fact that "the candidates of both parties, no matter how 'good' they may be when elected, are controlled after election by big business." Action has promptly followed. The Club for I. P. A. has been organized to educate students "to bring...
...rather idyllic beauty. The feeling of exclusiveness which even now enhances the value of Harvard Yale game tickets would become almost painful if everything depended on invitation-although the people eligible for invitations would be just the same ones who may now secure their tickets by application. And the sordid, commercial value of tickets would be enhanced as well. The black-list would have to be maintained, for those who might part with their birthright, for the celebrated mess of pottage. The only real difference would be that the Athletic Association would have no gate receipts...
...competition is open to everybody. A Yale man, Philip Barry, wrote "You and I" the prize winning 47 Workshop play of 1922. It would not be unbecoming for some genius of Music 4 to solve Yale's difficulty. Surely here is a chance for Harvard gallantry and incidentally, a sordid five hundred dollars...