Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...blame for this disgraceful proceeding by which some 13,000,000 people in this country are today denied that fair and equitable representation in Congress for which the Constitution provides, rests squarely upon the shoulders of those sordid politicians on both sides of the aisle of the House WHO HAVE HELD THEIR SEATS BY LYNCHING THE CONSTITUTION...
...Judge Edwin O. Lewis who started the investigation, who was its consistent supporter. He referred to the Grand Jury reports as "an amazingly sordid recital...
PROHIBITION No Beverage Poisoning is a grim, sordid phase of Prohibition. The most rabid anti-salooner would find it hard to vilify a lawbreaker who went shrieking to death with poison scourging his entrails. Last week an epidemic of poison liquor deaths struck Manhattan. John Becak, wagon driver for the Morgue, said he never had such a busy week. During three days 33 persons succumbed. Most of the deaths were caused by wood alcohol. Most of them occurred on the lower east side waterfront. The city police arrested purveyors of a decoction known as "smoke" which sells...
...spite of the unpleasant and sordid details which may creep into view during the current struggle for the leadership of the nation, the avowed determinations of the Moguls of each of the major parties to keep a firm hand and a vigilant eye upon their respective war chests is somewhat of a compensation...
...history of journalism in Montana would read like the history of ... the most ancient of professions. Its history of late years is a most sordid and ugly record of daily newspapers owned and controlled by The Big Company and prostituted to its dirty work of controlling public opinion. These are the scarlet creatures of Montana journalism. The circulation and advertising of the Butte Miner have increased surprisingly since it announced its independence and appealed to the people to make a stand against further inroads on their rights...