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...immigrant manner. But at length I said-"Oh well, God is merciful even to this benighted land. The mantle of our Andreyev has fallen upon Eugene O'Neill; while he lives and writes, U. S. A. may boast of a literature far beyond would-be psychological excursions into sordid Main Streets. I am expecting a new weekly magazine of news; possibly it may be less for 'les cretins' than the majority of the news press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 19, 1928 | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Ambassador, and with them he intends to show the true possibilities of that most modern type of journalism. The use of pictures to give the news of the day has no essential disadvantage, and under a management that would eliminate the stress now laid by them on sordid and sensational items they can be of real value to the thinking public, according to Mr. Moore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT! NO WOMEN? | 3/10/1928 | See Source »

...vessel. It would be gratifying if the same praise might be said of the hospitality of his subsequent captors. His deeds of daring rival the tales of days before mud and trenches, and cast a much needed glow of romance on the dismal panorama of a sordid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DARING GENTLEMAN | 2/14/1928 | See Source »

...though of much smaller proportions than the ancient, is, nevertheless, of exactly the same nature. It is a vulgar pleasure taken in the knowledge of the mental agony experienced by "those about to die". But possibly the fault lies equally with the journalist, who places before his public such sordid material. Would not Pioneer's financial policy of Mussolini's relations with the papacy from a sufficiently worthy substitute for it.' But we are afraid, somehow, that this would fall to satisfy the popular demand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/16/1928 | See Source »

...after being served with subpoenas. The big issue is whether the possessor of great wealth can, by use of legal talent, detective agencies, tampering with the jury and through the absence of important witnesses in Europe, defeat the aims of justice and keep out of the penitentiary. The whole sordid scandal is like a dead mackerel in the moonlight. It stinks and stinks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Dead Mackerel | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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