Word: sordidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have started this magazine for fun. Money is no object; let sordid souls seek that. If money is forced upon me through the enterprise, I shall found a hospital or a free beanery with...
...with, poetry at Trinity College, Cambridge, then sharpened his phrases for several years on French literature, to which he devoted his first and little known book. With mild maliciousness he turned to the Victorian Age, "an age of barbarism and prudery ... in which . . . the outlines were tremendous . . . the details sordid. . . ." Later, with amused detachment, he conjured up Elizabeth. In Portraits in Miniature he selected such piquant souls as Sir John Harington. who, "suddenly inspired," invented the water-closet. Spindle-shanked, bespectacled, reclusive, with a long red beard and a high falsetto voice, he was the point of many a pundit...
...sets out to avenge a murder committed by the head racketeer of the taxi corporation. Despite his wife's protests, he chases the murderer into a closet and is prepared to shoot him through the door when policemen find him. Like Smart Money and Blonde Crazy, Taxi is a sordid but amusing observation on minor metropolitan endeavors. Good shot: Cagney riding home from Coney Island on a subway and listening, with his hat over his eyes and an expression of dangerous boredom, to the fuzzy comments of his girl's girl friend...
...Wozzeck will be given by the Philadelphians in Manhattan Nov. 24. At its U. S. première in Philadelphia last year many a critic pronounced it the most important opera since Pélleas et Mélisande. It tells a sordid tale of murder done a woman who preferred a swaggering drum-major to a downtrodden, pasty-faced soldier. Composer Berg's score is as powerful as it is radical...
...Grim and sordid though it may be, Payment Deferred is the most interesting, most plausible and perfectly fashioned play yet to appear this season. Producer Gilbert Miller has already lined his pockets with the money Payment Deferred made in London in the early summer. For the play's success he has chiefly to thank Actor Charles Laughton, Mr. Marble...