Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frank Swinnerton is chiefly known as a technician. The story of Felix's childhood and youth is told with an adroit simplicity that gives a minute picture without the semblance of effort. Every episode comes with the force and inevitability of life itself. He is never melodramatic, never sordid. He is consistently interesting. He has the invaluable faculty of exploiting the significance of the casual. He does not feel it necessary to take his characters apart in order to show how they work. Unquestionably they all have complexes and repressions and psychological eccentricities. But Mr. Swinnerton is far more...
...still blinded and staggered by the smoke, and scorched by the embers, of the vast conflagration that swept across the earth. This might have been foreseen, for moral effort, when at an end, gives way to moral lassitude; and to hold the spirit on a lofty plane amid the sordid cares of peace is harder than in the actress of war. To do so we must keep our thoughts in tune with those who gave their lives upon the field, and died in glowing fervor for the cause they served. Without their courage, without their steadfastness of purpose, without their...
...There have been many sordid transactions in history, but none equals the shamelessness of this latest attempt to seize high power. No people who tamely acquiesce to such an act can have the right to live as a self-respecting nation. The Chinese people as a whole regard the election of Tsao-Kun as an act of usurpation and treason which must be resisted and punished...
...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...