Word: sordidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Steffens. What an opening there is for editors who can today, blud-goon graft and corruption with sweetness and light, as others did of yore, all with the accompaniment of sounding trumpets and falling walls. There is an intolerable dearth of succulent revelations and fat, juicy accusation, of harrowing, sordid, revolting, delightful delineation of sin and portraits of the vicious, shameless, guilt and scarlet sinners. There is a lack of pleasant self-righteous indictment done in the Lord's vineyard...
...play, The Green Pastures) effectively pigeonholed Roark Bradford as a writer of humorous Negro dialog. But Author Bradford, not content with his niche, has made manful attempts to emerge. This Side of Jordan, a serious novel, was a far cry from Ol' Man Adam; most readers found it sordid and sinister. John Henry was a little consciously folk-tale-ish. But now, in Kingdom Coming, Author Bradford has turned the trick: neatly sidestepping the hoodoo of black-face minstrel-showmanship and the voodoo of Harlem, he has written a grown-up novel about Negroes of the Old South. Grammy...
...Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. By bribery, intrigue, diplomacy, persuasion, force he worked to bring about a united South Africa. Like most men of action a mixture of cynic and sentimentalist, he made no bones of his tricky actions but could not bear to have his ambition thought sordid...
Tarzan the Fearless was originally intended to be the first four installments of a long Tarzan serial. Producer Sol Lesser thought so highly of his first chapters that he decided to release them at once. The picture shows Mary Brooks being kidnapped in the jungle, carried to a sordid cave where her father has already been incarcerated by a tribe of lecherous Arabians. A little ape tells Tarzan about this dastardly development. He rescues Mary first, then goes to aid her father and two other members of the party. The picture leaves Dr. Brooks (E. Alyn Warren) in danger...
...Cover the Waterfront (United Artists) exhibits a new way to smuggle Chinese houseboys into San Diego: in the stomachs of large sharks, whose mouths are propped open so that their inmates can breathe. This sordid aid to immigration is devised in I Cover the Waterfront by a grizzled old fishing captain, Eli Kirk (Ernest Torrence). It is discovered and reported to the authorities by a brisk and bibulous journalist (Ben Lyon) who is in love with Kirk's daughter, Julie (Claudette Colbert). The difficulties you might expect in a situation of this sort arise promptly: a Coast Guard officer...