Word: blight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blight was cast on the Bellboys Saturday by the edict issued by Mrs. Mary Healey, dictatress of the Louis Quatorze salle de bain that serves Lowell House for a dining room. Mrs. Healey laid down the law that no women were to be allowed to enter the dining room after 6:45 o'clock. The implication is that women talk so much that they eat slower than men, preventing the waitresses from leaving until late...
Meanwhile in cities, where piles of scrap still blight city halls, mayors began to scream too. But McConnell, surveying the mess he did not make, was still remarkably optimistic. Allowing for baby carriages, he still hopes to get 8,400,000 Ib. of aluminum out of the 14,000,000 Ib. of scrap collected. Estimated Army, Navy, Lend-Lease and "essential" civilian requirements...
Deac Aylesworth's immediate job is to let as much light as possible into the murk beclouding the average U.S. citizen's notion of life Down There; also to see that southbound programs do not conflict, hurt anybody's feelings or suffer from the dreary blight of what is known as "education"-in general, to make them make sense...
...National Conference on Planning, he sat red-faced through a speech by Architect Walter H. Thomas, who declared: "Most of our American cities are a flop, so far as being decent places in which to live and work. They are encumbered with the two bad twins of blight and flight and an attitude of 'who cares?' Philadelphia is afflicted with all three. . . . Instead of cleaning out our slums we apparently are waiting for them to disintegrate...
...17th-century dictatorship of the Puritans, thinks Burke, cast a blight over these high spirits from which London never recovered. Its energy remained; its gayety did not. In the 18th century, London girls no longer went maying into the fields to be deflowered; instead May Day workmen cadged pennies around town like little boys; Elizabethan violence gave way to the swinish japes of the well-born "Mohocks" and Regency bucks. Industrialism thickened London's misery and thinned its spirits still more. Victorian street children (next to Victorian factory children) were the most wretched in England's history...