Word: sordidly
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...bullets and bankers," the U. S. "dragooned" Mexico for U. S. oil interests, said Mr. Villard. "The blood of the 3,000 Haytians slain by our American marines, and of the 400 dead in Vera Cruz, mostly women and children, dishonors our good name, especially when involved with so sordid a business as debt collection...
...that Mallory and Irvine lost their lives this year, without the prospect of any material gain for either the climbers or the human race, he answered with a question: "Isn't it a goodish thing to run some risks, undergo some hardships for an ideal divorced from sordid considerations...
Fortunate indeed are the children of four and six years of age who may, in this sordid world of realities; experience such...
...revolting, nauseating story of carelessness, of venality, of low, sordid practices...
...becomes an engineer, an architect, finds himself driven to things against which his soul rebels, by the concrete and somehow sordid need for money. Fortunately, his wife concentrates on the financial, and thus does not drain him spiritually dry. So he retains his inner self, which continues to wrestle with the problem of adjusting things as they are with what he feels they ought...