Word: sordidly
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...will undoubtedly be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the best American play of the year. Like "Journey's End" it employs but one set--the brown stone front of a West Side tenement--and what plot it has is incidential to its theme of the tragic force of a sordid environment in the lives of a small group of human beings. It is distinguished, incidently, by the most terrifying murder one may find on any stage of the Rialto. The third hardest play to get tickets for is the Theatre Guild's production of "Caprice", a light...
...commercial field have had sufficient training to formulate any sound ideas on the subject. The cultural theories that see rightly a certain acquaintance with literature, art, music as highly desirable in producing that gentle abstraction, the complete man, generally trouble themselves not at all with the crass, sordid details that must crop up for every one without means, or desire to live in an ivory tower; and even the courses in college curricula dealing with the science of business are more involved in the evolution of the abstract than in the grappling with the concrete...
...blame for this disgraceful proceeding by which some 13,000,000 people in this country are today denied that fair and equitable representation in Congress for which the Constitution provides, rests squarely upon the shoulders of those sordid politicians on both sides of the aisle of the House WHO HAVE HELD THEIR SEATS BY LYNCHING THE CONSTITUTION...
...Judge Edwin O. Lewis who started the investigation, who was its consistent supporter. He referred to the Grand Jury reports as "an amazingly sordid recital...
PROHIBITION No Beverage Poisoning is a grim, sordid phase of Prohibition. The most rabid anti-salooner would find it hard to vilify a lawbreaker who went shrieking to death with poison scourging his entrails. Last week an epidemic of poison liquor deaths struck Manhattan. John Becak, wagon driver for the Morgue, said he never had such a busy week. During three days 33 persons succumbed. Most of the deaths were caused by wood alcohol. Most of them occurred on the lower east side waterfront. The city police arrested purveyors of a decoction known as "smoke" which sells...