Word: sordidly
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...line between what is fit to print and what isn't? That question was worrying the St. Louis Star-Times. It had reported the death of a teen-age girl as an "aftermath of tavern-hopping and sex orgy." Would it have been better to suppress this sordid story? In publishing such news, were newspapers themselves helping to make-more...
...Forces, as one of its ablest men. He had risen from private. As second in command of A.A.F. procurement, he had had much to do with the spending of $60 billion; he had been praised for getting airplanes when they were needed. He was a Big Man. On the sordid evidence presented before Senator Homer Ferguson's War Investigating subcommittee last week, Benny Meyers was something else. He was a man of cheap little schemes who hid behind cheaply bought dupes while he enriched himself...
...fashion show was put on with the best of intentions. Each garment was approved beforehand by a secret committee which agreed that it did not want anything silly or sensational. The purpose, said the sponsoring Los Angeles Fashion Group (mostly movie designers), was nothing so sordid as sales or headlines; it was to "improve taste" and "help turn fashion into more channels of sound and dignified progress [and] away from fly-by-night fads...
Born. To James Thomas Farrell, 43, author of the sad and sordid Studs Lonigan trilogy, and Hortense Alden Farrell: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: John Stephen. Weight...
...Picasso took on as aim the fantastic wager of destroying the phantom of 'official' beauty and substituting his own personal concept of beauty. He pursues and discovers beauty even in objects regarded as ugly-just as light sometimes lends to sordid things effects of gorgeous color...