Word: sordidly
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...author can make things happen, as the intense reality of the sordid Mr. Schreiner's call at the Kemper-Merritt's palacial home, and the dramatic accusation against Patty for cheating at bridge show, but is as a descriptive artist that he excels. His amazingly vivid and never trite phrasing makes the reader actually see the characters; his carefully constructed and cleverly told hits of action hold the reader with their nicety; and best of all, his delicacy keeps him within the bounds of decency, however immortal his theme may be. "The Gay Ones" is simply yet very well written...
Bishop Lawrence, in referring to Business, Chemistry and Fine Arts as the three unappreciated factors in American life today, repudiated the widely held notion that business was "essentially worldly or sordid". "As a Bishop with the blood of business stock in me, I claim that essentially the calling of business has in it the elements of faith, character, romance and chivalry, associated with the highest callings...
...professions of, medicine, law and the ministry are appreciated as high callings; and business is set down by popular consent as merely commercial-neccessary for money making and financial support but essentially worldly, often sordid. As a bishop with the blood of business stock in me, I resent the Insinuation, and claim that essentially the calling of business has in it elements of faith, character, romance and chivalry associated with the highest callings. Myriads of men and women in little shops on the side streets of our cities, in towns and villages throughout the land, are quietly working out that...
...corruption, of damaging testimony, of venal politics. Possibly there is a righteous feeling among the publishers that this governmental scandal should have the widest publicity to impress its iniquity upon the public more emphatically. But for the great majority, who are merely sickened by the reappearance of the "sordid detail" after another, who have no axe to grind, and who are well aware that this is not the first instance of corruption in American politics, the "Teapot Dome" has long since lost its news value...
While the University has been busying itself with a Republican Club, and a Democratic Club and a Hiram Johnson Club, Dartmouth College has progressed so far as to form a Club for Independent Political Action. "The sordid details of the political corruption that involves the leading politicians of both the Republican and Democratic parties" has awakened Dartmouth to the fact that "the candidates of both parties, no matter how 'good' they may be when elected, are controlled after election by big business." Action has promptly followed. The Club for I. P. A. has been organized to educate students "to bring...