Word: venal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...venal a heart those medals covered Londoners first discovered last November, at the end of a scandalous trial of a huge arson ring. Before he was sentenced to 14 years in jail, the ringleader, one Leopold Harris, testified that he had had nearly every Salvage Corps officer in his pocket. Of the ring's ?500,000 annual takings in insurance, Captain Miles had received a paltry ?25 a month for overlooking cases of suspected arson...
...labor amendment. Selfish motives are difficult to identify in the opponents since the newsboy problem never has been agitated in connection with the amendment. However, 21 States have laws affecting newsboys which are generally inadequate or ill-enforced-a fact possibly attributable in certain instances to the influence of venal publishers. In 35 States boys under 12 are permitted to sell or distribute papers...
...would have welcomed a diplomatic post; but he was never offered one. Hoping to become a political power through the Press, he wrote for the North American Review and as Washington correspondent for The Nation; but when President Grant's itchy-palmed administration came in, the thickly venal atmosphere was too much for Henry. As he grew older, his early will-to-power rarefied itself into an ironic, scholarly contemplation of U. S. history, the U. S. scene. After teaching history at Harvard and editing the North American Review, he settled down to write. His anonymous novel Democracy...
...lives in sin with her bank clerk. The son, jailed for stealing a little coal, joins a street-corner meeting in which a policeman is killed. He is convicted of the murder and hanged, largely because of his radical opinions. Other scenes tabloid black-hearted iron tycoons, grimy politicians, venal judges, rich diplomats. Written strongly and at the top of its lungs, broadly directed by Author Rice, excellently cast, We, the People is an evening of violent excitement, crude theatre...
...their relations with a revolver. What all this leads to any cinemaddict ought to know, but Raft and Cummings look their parts and the picture was well directed by Archie Mayo. It manages to convey a sense of a locale, to dramatize successfully the popular conception of speakeasies as venal institutions which are sleek, disorderly and exciting...