Word: sordidly
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...social life of the Harvard man is about to be simplified for one of these all-inclusive valet organizations in the Square has turned its attention to the duty-dance question. To preserve etiquette around Boston, this firm feels that a gentleman should have the assurance that these sordid experiences have a satisfactory remedy. They are seriously debating organizing a cut in service which would work as follows...
...reporting the Gillette case as An American Tragedy (the second volume is almost a stenographic record of the trial) Author Dreiser made Society the villain for having endowed Clyde Griffiths with a sordid background and for tormenting him with emotional stresses with which he was not equipped to deal. (The film version, starring Phillips Holmes and Sylvia Sidney, angered Dreiser to the point of trying to keep it off the screen because, he complained, it slighted the Dreiser sociology...
...Sordid indeed to a man like Sir Kingsley is the memory of how, when he distributed 2,000 holders and 9,000 stainless steel nibs last year to branch post offices, more than 1,200 vanished in the first month. Undaunted, Sir Kingsley last week planned to distribute 10,000 more pens. But these will be bright red, stamped conspicuously with the monogram...
...committee feels that it has thus far only scratched the surface," declared publicity-loving Chairman Nye. To the "rather sordid picture" of the munitions industry painted so far by his committee he proposed to add the steel companies sometime in December...
...Authors. Because they are poets, Robinson, Spender and Auden are not typical citizens of their respective countries. Old Poet Robinson, Maine-born, Harvard-bred, chose the uncrowded profession of poet at an early age. Establishing himself in Manhattan "in a sordid stall on the fifth floor of a dreary house," he kept himself and Pegasus fed by doing odd jobs, was once a construction inspector on the subway. Only U.S. poet ever reviewed by a U.S. President, Robinson got more attention when Theodore Roosevelt wrote an encomium of his poetry in the Outlook, and offered him a consulship in Mexico...