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After a careful check on your recent articles published under the heading Education. I must conclude that this department is somewhat inferior to the high standard of other departments of your magazine. For instance, in your issue of April 23 you take great pains to explain the sordid details of an unfortunate occurrence which might appear to greater advantage under "Crime...
First chapter of the Dillinger career was the sordid story of a boy gone wrong. In 1924 he began with petty robbery, was identified after a grocery store hold-up at Mooresville outside of Indianapolis. For that he got a sentence of from 10 to 20 years. And the chapter ended with him in the Indiana State Penitentiary after he had proved too tough a customer to be handled in the reformatory...
...painting] represents a most disgraceful, sordid, disreputable, drunken brawl, wherein apparently a number of enlisted men are consorting with a party of streetwalkers and denizens of the red-light district. This is an unwarranted insult . . . and evidently originated in the sordid, depraved imagination of someone who has no conception of actual conditions in our service...
...absolute which can find no channel into the particular. This is just the Platonic Christianity against which Aquinas waged so masterful a struggle; it is the Christianity which, in the phrase of Mr. G. K. Chesterton, regards the body as a kind of "negligible napkin", and its concerns as sordid and irrelevant. It is not Dr. Niebuhr's Christianity...
Fired with the patriotic zeal of Mazzini, Sandino devoted himself to the cause of Nicaraguan liberty. When American Devil Dogs came to protect the property of capitalist adventurers, he told it to the Marines with bullets, writing bloody pages in one of the most sordid chapters in American imperialism. For five years Sandino led a band of ragged followers in guerilla warfare as Supreme Chief of the Army of Defenders of the National Sovereignty of Nicaragua. "God and our mountains fight for us," he told his hero-worshipping troops. The Marines questioned the divine nature of his assistance, but they...