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Among the tastier bits on the extra order list were: "Puree Mongoloid, with Pigtails," "Completed creamed Mushroom Soup with Cretins, (Little idiots with large heads)," "Filet of Soles (I were them myself, says the Colonel)," and "Sordid Cold Cuts...
When John Kirkland wrote the play back in 1934, its topic was one of importance and even though the critics claimed that it was too sordid to succeed on Broadway, the play caught on and was a sensational sociological drama. Since that time, however, the same topic has received fresher treatment and, at the moment, has lost its significance in the face of greater problems. Yet "Tobacco Road" still hangs on, playing to large audiences who have come mostly to be shocked by the fifth of the play. The present production is aimed just at gratifying this part...
ASTOUNDED GARBLED INTERPRETATION HURRIED INTERVIEW REPRESENTATIVE TIME ACTIVITIES OXFORD GROUP MOVEMENT FOR PROMOTION INDUSTRIAL PEACE. NEVER DERIDED EFFORTS MADE SUCCESSFULLY TO CREATE UNDERSTANDING AND INTENSIFY PRODUCTIVE RESULTS. USE OF EXPRESSION SORDID MEANS UNWARRANTABLE. AM ARDENT SUPPORTER ALL ORGANIZED ENDEAVOR STIMULATE SPIRITUAL OUTLOOK NATIONAL LIFE...
...Oxford Group when he found that Roman Catholic representatives were not included as signatories to a Group press manifesto concerning "religious freedom." Sir Patrick added that on investigating Group claims to have forestalled work stoppages in the Midlands, he had found they had actually been avoided by "sordid means" -he used the phrase with a twinkle in his eye-"like better pay and better hours...
Unlike the Japanese Army, which has built itself a pretty sordid record in China, Isoroku Yamamoto's Navy displaces better than its own weight in pride, and he has grown up with that pride. He graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in time to lose the first and second fingers of his left hand aboard Admiral Togo's flagship Mikasa in the great battle off Tsushima in 1904. Down the years he has absorbed and fostered the morale of Japan's Navy, the crafty conservatism of Japanese naval statesmanship, pride in such things as the superiority...