Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which have been scandals or near-scandals during his regime. It was also charged that Mayor Walker had "failed to display the slightest interest in a situation which was . . . destroying the confidence of citizens in the integrity of the courts" and had shown indifference regarding "open and sordid corruption in the Police Department." The Governor sent the charges to the Mayor to answer upon his return to New York from Palm Springs. Calif...
...Composer Taylor's third choice of subject. He had worked first on Heywood Broun's Candle Follows His Nose. Becoming involved in Broun's allegory, he dropped it for Elmer Rice's Street Scene. Deems Taylor music is essentially lyric and charming. Street Scene is sordid, grim. Composer Taylor shelved it for Peter Ibbetson the evening he met Constance Collier at a party given by Katherine Cornell. In his libretto he followed the structure of the Peter Ibbetson which Miss Collier adapted in 1917 as a play for herself and the Barrymore Brothers. The story which...
...both camps, the people who make revolution a more inspiring, more honest thing than war. And there are always, too, soldiers of fortune who seek only excitement, who, regardless of issues, fight for either side, and who shift their loyalty with easy convenience. Human strife carries with it many sordid trappings, but none so despicable as the blatant soldier of fortune...
...story was related of a young woman not connected with the University who sold one of the Library books and bought her supper with the proceeds. That she was caught in the act provides a sordid finish to a career of highly imaginative kleptomania...
...orator of the day, he decried U. S. chauvinism, legal instability, corruption. But chiefly he indicted U. S. citizens, not their laws or leaders. Excerpt: "It is not primarily faithlessness to public trust, nor corruption in its more overt forms, with which we are menaced. . . . It is rather the sordid and vulgar spirit which at times apparently engulfs the masses of our people, magnifying money and the power which it conveys as the dominating forces in our national life. . . . Nor is it a negligible circumstance that public opinion is at times insensitive to the insidious threat of moral turpitude...