Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gloomy old Moabit Court behind doors closed to press and public. Presumably to quash rumors of the trial's being a political persecution, both press' and public were admitted last day when the presiding judge had his final say. In a frank review of a sordid case, the judge found von Cramm guilty of immorality with an 18-year-old Galician Jew named Manasse Herbst who eventually blackmailed von Cramm to the tune of $12,000, hopped off to Palestine. Sentence pronounced: one year in jail, with the two months already spent in confinement to be deducted...
...London, publishers withdrew the autobiography of a prostitute, To Beg I Am Ashamed, after newspaper columnists, before the book's publication, called it disgraceful, sordid, "the vilest book that has ever left a modern printing press." Smarting, the publishers accused columnists of "a gross breach of privilege" in denouncing a book before it appeared, of exaggerating its sensationalism. Critics, agreeing with the publishers, graded the book honest but dreary...
...context or in relation to the young novelist and his contemporary applause. Sentence (3) commences firmly to distinguish between "compact" and "fulfilled," but instead of focusing his point the frivolous poet appends an incomprehensible commentating clause. Sentence (4) is a compression of the defects of the "Letters" at large. Sordid subjects, prevalent among social novelists are ridiculed; a digression is made on obscurity; this obscurity is commented on; and the sentence lamely concludes declaring that one must ponder whether matter or style is more vile. Artistically the word "vices" is wishful and unproven; Mr. Hillyer's couplets have not made...
Though it is a recognized fact that there happen as many good deeds in the world as bad, the press, headed by pictorial sections, has displayed increasingly of late a tendency to feature the spectacular, the sordid, and the base in American life. Any justification of this course rests on the fundamental premise that most people secretly admire the man who dares...
...Judge, nation's oldest humor monthly, 1937 has not been funny. Harry Hart, when he founded it in 1881, confessed: "I have started this magazine for fun. Money is no object; let sordid souls seek that." No sordid soul but a top-notch syndicator, General Manager Monte Bourjaily resigned from United Feature Syndicate last September, bought Judge to have fun & make money. He found Judge's financial ill health too much ingrained. When Life disappeared as a comic weekly and reappeared as a picture magazine. Judge lost a competitor besides acquiring old Life's circulation and features...