Word: venal
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...Quorn was due to meet in Leicestershire's Loughborough last week on Boxing Day when a spasm of horror racked Sir Harold and his subscribers. Word slipped out that a crass and venal Loughborough manufacturer proposed a novel stunt to advertise his pants and shirts. As the Quorn met he would release a fox dressed in shirt and pants...
...defending him. Oliver's smoothly resentful colleagues tricked him into a felony, wrecked his career, drove him out of town. Carolyn would have gone with him, but he ran away from her. Author Zugsmith's Manhattan, a city of slums, grimy schools, furtive assignations, venal officials, speakeasies, dingy hall bedrooms, cigar-stuffy offices and law courts, is not a pleasant metropolis but it is a long way from being a city of the dead. The speech of its inhabitants, broken, illiterate, suggestive, rings like true coin of the realm, worn from much handling. And the scene is presided...
...thought, though not quite so widely printed, naturally, in the papers, that the industry was afraid of an investigation of its methods of circulation, particularly the practice of employing children to sell the sheets in the streets. Mayor LaGuardia of New York has uncovered quite a different and more venal custom which may well have been behind the fourth estate's high-toned reluctance to enter the N.R.A...
...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...