Word: sordidness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sight less than many newshawks, as you call them. You are at liberty to search my official Naval record, and perform such other spy work as the investigation will require in regard to this matter. There is nothing whatever in the record, on and off, to justify the politely sordid comments you make concerning liquor, and myself. For your information, I am suffering from acute neuritis in my legs which followed a severe case of double lobar pneumonia (unconscious five days and not expected to live), which in turn followed an attack of acute gastritis with hemorrhages (unconscious...
...baby because a boy kissed her. In college she fell in love with an evangelist, became deeply religious, watched the unfolding of an ugly campus "romance" when an effeminate music teacher married to stop the gossip that was threatening his job. At home she saw a still more sordid end to romance when Kirby Townsend married, communicated a venereal disease to his wife, was finally crippled in an accident while driving with a village bad woman. As a schoolteacher Selma was fond of a boy named Dwight Fleming, until Dwight spotted a famed bandit, won a reward...
...doubt who will that tonight I portray the ceaseless yearning of their hearts and the ambition of their minds. Let him who will, be he economic tyrant or sordid mercenary, pit his strength against this mighty upsurge of human sentiment now being crystallized in the hearts of 30,000,000 workers who clamor for the establishment of industrial democracy and for participation in its tangible fruits...
...gods, TIME, where in the world did you filch such sordid stuff as that...
Another reporter on the job at the Gordonsville tragedy was United Pressman Levings Somers Willis. Of the sordid stuff he saw, says he: "I have in my desk a charred piece of jawbone of the man which was handed my wife by one of the crowd at the scene. I will gladly mail this to TIME. I personally saw both bodies raked from the ashes of the house, and saw pieces of skull and jawbone broken from the body of the man. Boys used the body of the woman as a football in the early morning hours. Slicing flesh...