Word: sordidness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sadly enough, it is Mr. Anderson who is at fault. Those who look upon him as the standard-bearer of poetic drama should be distressed, and justly so, by this, his latest work. Around the sordid scandal of Mayerling he has woven a dashingly domantic fliction, full of florid gestures, plots and counterplots, saved from melodramatic banality only by its insistence on the eternal antithesis between power and justice. The liberal Crown Prince Rudolph schemes to seize the throne from Franz-Joseph, his father, in order to relieve the oppressed people, but even as his coup d'etat succeeds...
...volcano. When they were six, their fathers went to war and their mothers went to live with their parents, or sent their children to them and nursed the wounded ... or took a two-room flat instead of the old eight-room one, or moved with their children to some sordid little hotel of some little town behind the front where their husbands were in the hospital, or fled from scurrying troops, or wandered from a modest bourgeois home to the luxury of a ministerial mansion, or into exile, or into a refugee's railway carriage home. . . . This generation...
...agreeable feature of Swiss politics is the absence of sordid competition. With clocklike regularity Swiss politicians succeed from office to office by uneventful stages. Last week Switzerland's official clock chimed the hour for 65-year-old Giuseppe Motta, Roman Catholic, ex-lawyer, father of ten, to be re-elected President of the Swiss Confederation ("President of Switzerland") for the fifth time. As head of the Swiss delegation to the League of Nations, onetime Foreign Secretary and onetime Finance Minister, Dr. Motta has drained the Swiss political...
...Carter" suits him perfectly. A Holywood publicity agent, he wise-crack himself out of his job and into digging dirt for a radio gossip hour. Ross takes over the broadcast when his boss gets drunk, and by fancy mudslinging becomes the darling of the ether. His girl resents this sordid occupation, and, together with some gangsters whom he is exposing in his broadcasts, brings adventures to the here. In the fade-out, however, true love triumphs...
...English hotel, the staff of which are familiar with their jobs. When the wife brings the suit for divorce, hotelmen testify that the husband and the corespondent spent the night together in the same room and were registered on the blotter as man & wife. Needless to say, in such sordid circumstances any actual commission of adultery is usually omitted by the husband, whose mood is apt to be one of bitterness at a divorce system which many British jurists and prelates have denounced as "revolting" and "unfair." Last week Mrs. Simpson filed such a divorce suit against Mr. Simpson...