Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
There are also men who consider that politics in the United States is, far too low and sordid an occupation for men of their noble and refined characters. This attitude is stupid and cowardly; cowardly because if the conditions were as they imagine them to be it would be "The Right to Fight", and finally his latest work, "Everybody's World". These books deal with conditions in the Far and Near East and show also America's relation to the problems of the world...
...Illinois. Yet still there is no occasion for the attitude pharisaical. No one can be quite sure what would have happened if professional football had flourished among the cities of the seaboard, rousing instincts of civic pride and personal gain. Nor have the temptations of the Middle West been sordid merely. There is that matter of stadiums. No college which is truly up and doing can be quite satisfied with the athletic glory that was Greece until it is appropriately encompassed by the architectural grandeur that was Rome. And how is the drive for funds to prosper unless the driver...