Word: sordidly
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...They led Ruth Brown Snyder from her steel cage tonight. Then the powerful guards thrust her irrevocably into the obscene, sprawling oak arms of the ugly electric chair . . . The body that once throbbed with the joy of her sordid bacchanals turned brick red as the current struck . . . That was only 30 minutes ago. The memory of the crazed woman in her last agony as she struggled against the unholy embrace of the chair is yet too harrowing . . . She wore blue bloomers . . ." In such flamboyant journalese, flamboyant Hearstling Gene Fowler described the executions of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray...
...Sordid Quest. Among the witnesses against the brothers were six former patients, all from outside Indiana. An old man from Texas told how he had been instructed to discontinue insulin and eat sweets, if he liked. His toes began to turn black, and eventually his leg had to be amputated. A 14-year-old girl told the court that after she had used nine jugs of the Kaadt magic medicine, her eyes clouded over with cataracts...
...Kaadts were found guilty. Last week Judge Patrick T. Stone sentenced them each to three years in prison and fined them $7,000 and costs. Said the judge to the old brothers: "You have been engaged in a widescale, sordid, evil and vicious enterprise without the slightest regard or consideration for the patient that consulted you . . . You were cold, vicious and heartless in your quest for wealth...
...little circumstances surrounding Gandhi's death, in the sordid surroundings of his funeral, there were hints of the real Gandhi, the Gandhi who did not escape reality but pursued it in the teeth of all the windy words like "power" and "progress...
...sensationalism, France Dimanche keeps a certain perspective. It rarely runs rape stories. They are all right for prudish U.S. and British papers, Corre thinks, but the "sexually enlightened" French are uninterested in such sordid affairs unless they have an amusing twist. His curled-lip philosophy of journalism: "A newspaper is scandalous if it doesn't print scandal...