Word: sordidly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history-rape of Mrs. Thalia Massie, wife of a lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, followed by the death of a Hawaiian suspected of the crime and the conviction of Mrs. Massie's mother, husband and two men for manslaughter. Last week, Flapper's Half Acre made sordid news again. A telephone call for an ambulance brought police to the sumptuous beach house of thick-jowled young Prince David Kalakaua Kawananakoa...
Hong Kong's business section became a sordid shambles as the wind tumbled walls, roofs, windows, shop signs. Motorcar parts flew like pebbles. Steel lampposts were bent almost at right angles. A waist-high flood of stinking water and mud seeped turgidly through the waterfront streets...
When Lulu was jailed for murder, homosexual Countess Geschwitz helped her escape. In Paris, Lulu philandered crazily with gamblers, procurers and swindlers. The end came in a sordid London attic. Impoverished Lulu combed the streets incessantly for men, made the mistake of bringing home Jack the Ripper. The orchestra reached a shuddering climax when the sadist disemboweled Lulu, concluded sombrely with Countess Geschwitz wailing over her "angel...
...Hanlon has sent to Interne Kildare, Kildare foils her, learns her story, falls in love and gets Hanlon to capture Innes, who is seriously wounded. Kildare performs another emergency operation and Hanlon forces Innes to reveal that the baby is in an orphanage. As the quaint finale to this sordid story, Mother Haley recognizes her daughter in a row of five tiny tots who line up appealingly before...
...author capture the mood of her subject, but the very spirit of the times--the seventies in the continental capitals, Rome, Paris, Naples, and the rest. From life on the picturesque Riviera of the last Nineteenth Centry with its lazy and peaceful atmosphere we are wafted to the sordid dampness and depression of artists' studios on the Rive Gauche, with their moments of artificial happiness at the cost of bitter enmities and disappointments...