Word: sordidly
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...Grim and sordid though it may be, Payment Deferred is the most interesting, most plausible and perfectly fashioned play yet to appear this season. Producer Gilbert Miller has already lined his pockets with the money Payment Deferred made in London in the early summer. For the play's success he has chiefly to thank Actor Charles Laughton, Mr. Marble...
...After that, Laborer Hanna became angry, terrified, excited. And Portland (through the sedate Portland Oregonian} learned of the Hanna Case for the first time. For Teacher Friendly had written of Helen Hanna: "Recommendation: Should be sterilized. She is not at all placeable and if left in her present sordid environment she will continue to steal and undoubtedly will become a sex delinquent. Should be committed to the feeble-minded school." Laborer Hanna was asked by Assistant Chief Probation Officer Neth to give permission to sterilize Helen. If he gave it, she might not be sent to the institution...
During the trial her letters were offered in evidence and attained wide publicity. Subsequent to the trial they came into my possession and have been carefully preserved. They are notable in that they quite counteract the sordid impression which one apparently gains from the cinema, and show the real tragedy of Miss Brown's unfortunate position during the last few weeks of her life. I am always willing to show these letters to anyone in whom Mr. Dreiser's book or the cinema has aroused interest...
...dues." Its president, a Mrs. Olga Plater, and her husband, Albert Browel Plater (who in 1917 had been ac cused of impersonating a Russian count, a U. S. Army captain), lived in a $50,000 home near Detroit. Last week the American Friendship Society was involved in a sordid, hideous mess. In a shallow grave beside a garage in Clarksburg, W. Va., were found the bodies of two women and three children. In Clarksburg jail cowered a fat, beady-eyed, flabby little man, battered and bruised into a confession of his sadism. Police in many States followed clues to other...
Like Ulysses, Alexander platz is a many-charactered merry-go-round with one unheroic central figure bobbing through the realistic din. Not less topical than Ulysses, Alexander platz is more sordid, more sentimental. Herr Doblin's Dublin is Berlin: his hero one Franz Biberkopf, denizen of the city's lesser deeps. Just released from Tegel Prison after serving four years for killing his harlot-mistress, Biberkopf in tends to go straight, shake off the crooked company he kept before. He sells news papers, manages respectability for a while. Then he runs into his evil genius, one Reinhold...