Word: sordidly
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...week in Philadelphia Revelry had its first night. Dramatized by Maurine Watkins (author of the play Chicago) from a novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, it purported to reveal the degeneracies and deceptions to which the U. S. Government descended during the Harding administration. Said a critic: "It tells a sordid story of misplaced trust and unseemly gorging at the public treasury...
...paper Gossip. If I should read anything in your paper that would receive a kindly comment, I think I would drop dead. If you are contemplating giving anything a friendly and helpful comment, do let me know in advance as the shock would be too much. In this sordid world just filled with worries and cares, and where one tries his hardest to see only the good, of what use do you think your paper is with its cheap gossip and sarcasm ? (MRS.) GLADYS BARGER Boston, Mass...
Perfection has almost been attained in the sordid business of making a living. The gifted man need no longer trouble his brain with the vulgar strife of ordinary mortals, he need not even incur the sin of wishing that a wealthy forebear be relieved from the pains of earthly existence. He need only consent to have his name spread abroad in the land on some article of common use and then enjoy the tribute he draws from an appreciative world. Only one difficulty yet remains, he must first go through the difficult, perhaps dangerous, process of becoming a popular hero...
...British Exchequer Winston S. Churchill of directing a secret band of assassins pledged to exterminate Soviet officials. Isvestia added, explanatorily: "London is a nest of murderers." Soviet War Minister Clemence Voroshilov declared: "The British maintain a band of murderers and brigands in our country." What banal and sordid crime provoked these flamboyant charges...
These visitors to Cambridge, President Lowell, the faculty of the school now dedicate a monument to American business. It is not the complacent reminder of a sordid interest. It is the dignified reminder of the willingness of the modern Harvard to ally herself with the contemporary world, to train men for the duties and needs of that world; and it is the dignified, vital reminder of the energy, generosity, breadth of mind of leaders in business...