Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what could be termed the middle class, were subtracted, the total population of the nation would remain substantially intact. The proletariat remaining contains millions of city dwellers drawn largely from foreign lands, sunk at the bottom of the social scale, and intellectually nourished on simple tales of virtue and sordid tales of vice. These form their gossip, their excitement, their cultural horizon. It is the pictorial papers that have recently thrown this class into relief and emphasized its importance. Three pictorials have thriven in the city of New York with a scarcely perceptible intrusion into the circulation of the older...
...result of the agitation leaves Yale alone to face the music. If the hand of the News has been responsible for the unveiling of sordid truths, it must shoulder the job of swinging the pendulum back to grace. What then is the result which we fear? It is that Yale must pay the bitter price of being an example. Yale, then, is an example, and has shown that the wet majority of the country will not retreat before this legislation. This being the case, a compromise is both desirable and necessary if young America is to grow up with proper...
...Cover Charge" has neither plot, nor beginning nor end. The aurnor purports to supply one in the career of Alan, the hero. What it comes down to is a series of sordid affairs strung together with a certain deftness which is hardly compelling. In flashers, Mr. Woolrich's characters stand out in three dimensions. For the most part, however, they remain the tinsel marionnettes which the author undoubtedly intended them to be in order to gain his distorted effects. He tries to be surprising and clever in his use of words and situations but he too often descends to sheer...
...came out of my long retreat ... to help the Canadian people get rid of a certain class and of attempts at blackmailing public men, Governments and Parliaments in order to secure certain sordid ends . . . that sordid dominion of this group in Quebec which has been exercised by Lord Atholstan and the Montreal Star for 25 years...
...boys and girls from every variety of home storm the citadels of learning drawn there in the main by a common belief that college is a blessed institution for increasing money-making ability. And every year a similar multitude of young men and women are sent forth to their sordid battle from the gates of our colleges armed with a sheepskin, a bundle of new desires, a few common-place rules of economics, and with hardly a trace of originality among them--an army of pygmies fresh from the mold. The procession is a sufficient commentary upon the general state...