Word: sordidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Protest was crudely but plainly indicated in the cover design, labeled "Saint Andy of Pittsburgh." It showed a cadaverous, ansel-winged Andrew Mellon against a red sky, plucking a harp above a sordid panorama of smoking mill chimneys, squalid shacks, starved workers, silk-hatted bankers slipping money to corrupt politicians. This illustrated W'riter Liggett's leading, lengthy article: "Mr. Mellon's Pittsburgh-Symbol of Corruption." Other features: "News Behind The News," a querulous "debunking" of the fortnight's political and economic news; "Children Are Starving" by one Lillian Symes; political pin-sticking by Robert...
...pleasure, hit's the poor what gets the blime," Chrysalis moves rapidly through 16 cinematographic scenes of the high and low life of Manhattan. Lyda Cose and Don Ellis, a pair of rich and vicious flibbertigibbets, meet Eve Haron and Honey Rogers, a miniature crime wave, in a sordid resort. Lyda and Don are carrying on a puny little affair, are attracted to Eve and Honey because, although they may not be good citizens, they appear to love each other very dearly ?so dearly, in fact, that when the law closes upon them, Honey kills a prison guard...
...originality and his finesse, even though sloppy work is now the mode for Hollywood. He knows very well how to make a good shot, how to make five extra and Marlene Dietrich Paddling about in a property pound look like six syivan nymphs; he can throw the property sordid glamour over Marline, the whore refusing a be in a flop-house because she intends to return to the respectability of the stage. Von Sternberg's fault is that he is old-fashioned; he believes that people still get a great thrill from seeing a mammoth locomotive roaring down the tracks...
With the sending of National Guardsmen into the Taylorville strike area in Illinois, another step is taken along the road that led to the sordid history of Harlan and Bell Counties. The circumstances are substantially the same: miners refuse to work for oppressively low wages; owners, faced with a labor crisis at their own boom period, hire substitutes, who are attacked and prevented from entering the shafts; as a last resort the militia is evoked to "protect lives and property...
...propose," shouted Senator Barkley, "to reduce the exorbitant and indefensible rates ... to inaugurate friendly international trade conferences. . . . The Democratic Party does not advocate free trade. [We] wrote, sponsored and secured the passage of a measure which ought to lift tariff-making above the sordid processes of log-rollers and back-scratchers and place it upon the high plane of scientific knowledge. ... But Mr. Hoover vetoed the measure...