Word: sordidly
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...seduction of Bobby-Soxer Sally Kelton (Sally Forrest) is neither brutal nor particularly sordid. It is simply commonplace. By the time Sally knows that she is pregnant, her seducer has disappeared and she is already half in love with an upstanding young gas-station manager (Keefe Brasselle). From there on the plot follows all the steps of Sally's degradation and eventual rehabilitation with a kind of remorseless documentary fervor...
...defend Nick "Pretty Boy" Romano (John Derek), a young hoodlum charged with killing a cop. Bogart has known "Pretty Boy" for years, mistakenly believes him innocent, and blames society for the boy's criminal ways. To prove his point to the jury, he tells, in flashbacks, the sordid story of Romano's life. In the telling, Veteran Bogart inevitably displaces young Newcomer Derek as the real center of interest...
...Sordid Patches. In Berlin, where the Red blockade has thrown thousands out of jobs, most of the women advertisers ask for good providers. Sexy innuendos have proved less effective than ads like this: "War widow in her early forties. Delicate constitution, three children, seeks acquaintance with amiable, responsible gentleman. Object: marriage...
...inevitably, the billboards have their sordid patches. One recent ad read: "Well-situated, well-educated lady, 45 years old, is looking for cultivated girl friend who must be blonde with full figure...
...golden boys" who wander through lanes "canopied by the sly innocence of the woodbine's dangling stems," while adoring lasses stroke "the faded, maybe bloodstained, cloth" of heir uniforms with "shy, white fingers." He dreams of poets who move through life like gods, never erring, never sinking into sordid realms of spite and pettiness...