Word: sordidly
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...after a fashion, is gone. Nancy Carroll is a girl who plays the violin and sings in Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra in a South Sea island hotel run by a man named Schomberg. Richard Arlen helps 'her to escape from disgusting fates imminent for her on every side. The sordid background Conrad had in his mind, a background in which, at the world's outposts, civilized formulas are stretched so thin that they become a satiric mirror for human behavior, has been changed into decorative and often admirable picture postcards. Best shot: Schomberg throwing the band leader downstairs...
...Massachusetts minimum wage law applies only to women, and not even to women in all occupations. The board can only recommend that its findings concerning wages be accepted by employers. The law is what it is. The shock to the community is due to the sordid meanness of the richest university in the world in throwing 20 poor scrubwomen out of work for the sake of two cents an hour...
...vastitude soon undermines his ambition; he is unable to write his novel, is too frequently in need of sleep. Meanwhile his wife experiments with a wealthy fellow, gets in deeper and deeper, is finally implicated in a knife murder which her husband is sent to report. It is a sordid, ordinary tragedy, conceived and acted without much imagination. A Primer for Lovers. Playwright William Hurlbut once concerned himself with such austere subjects as the psychological borderland between religion and sex (Bride of the Lamb). In his newest play austerity has given way to ribaldry, sex is uncomplicated by religion. Manhattan...
...Ibsen's plays this seemed to us to run the most smoothly, to give the most semblance of a real slice of life; sordid, yes, but still smacking more of some possible truth than most of the products of this despondent Norseman. Other Ibsen dramas have always left the impression of extreme morbidity, with a moral to be learned, but shown in a most unconvincing tale. This tale stands cross examination better. All this is due, no doubt, to Miss Yurka's presentation. In less skilled hands. "The Wild Duck" could easily be produced as no more than another Ibsen...
...biggest task before America at the present time is the spiritualization of the vast resources which have been put into our hands. If these get us, we are gone. If we get behind them with a passion to serve, then they rise from the sordid to the sacred...