Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perfection has almost been attained in the sordid business of making a living. The gifted man need no longer trouble his brain with the vulgar strife of ordinary mortals, he need not even incur the sin of wishing that a wealthy forebear be relieved from the pains of earthly existence. He need only consent to have his name spread abroad in the land on some article of common use and then enjoy the tribute he draws from an appreciative world. Only one difficulty yet remains, he must first go through the difficult, perhaps dangerous, process of becoming a popular hero...
...British Exchequer Winston S. Churchill of directing a secret band of assassins pledged to exterminate Soviet officials. Isvestia added, explanatorily: "London is a nest of murderers." Soviet War Minister Clemence Voroshilov declared: "The British maintain a band of murderers and brigands in our country." What banal and sordid crime provoked these flamboyant charges...
These visitors to Cambridge, President Lowell, the faculty of the school now dedicate a monument to American business. It is not the complacent reminder of a sordid interest. It is the dignified reminder of the willingness of the modern Harvard to ally herself with the contemporary world, to train men for the duties and needs of that world; and it is the dignified, vital reminder of the energy, generosity, breadth of mind of leaders in business...
...return, however, to Howells. In his time he was considered the foremost exponent of the realistic school of American literature. His is not the sordid realism of a Dreiser, but perhaps it is none the less realistic for that. We are not all degenerates and abnormals. Howells purpose was to give us a picture of life as it is, with all its little common, ordinary happenings, and yet to make the reader like it, and see the inner meaning behind everything. In this aim he succeeded admirably, enrichening his stories with a humor that rings very true. In "The Rise...
Purpose. "Today one can truthfully say that medical researches designed to relieve generations yet unborn are looked upon as being almost holy, whereas the relief of people who are now miserable and suffering is, too often, looked on as rather sordid and commercial. Today we are suffering from too much knowledge too widely diffused. We devote too much effort to driving home detailed information and too little to the development of perspective."?Dr. William James Mayo, Rochester, Minn...