Word: decrepit
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...patiently for Father Wiggs to return gold-laden from the Klondike, occupies a mean little hovel in the cabbage patch. Mrs. Wiggs takes in washing, Billy Wiggs sells wood, and with the other little Wiggs, they receive each buffet of fate with cheerful fortitude. When such blessings as a decrepit, sway-backed horse, or perhaps a Thanksgiving basket from the beautiful benefactress on the hill, happen to come along, the Wiggs star has ascended to heights unknown. But despite the kindness of a newspaper editor (Kent Taylor) and his sweetheart (Evelyn Venable) the cough of little Jimmy Wiggs becomes worse...
...take in a passerby and his family who have been dispossessed. John puts up signs inviting other jobless to join their community-a carpenter, a stone mason, a barber, a violinist, a tailor, an undertaker, an escaped convict. They build shacks, plough the fields using manpower, a motorcycle, decrepit automobiles. When they first behold a seedling they exhibit naïve joy and the carpenter leads them in prayer. But before their crops are ready for harvest their larder is depleted. The convict saves the community by arranging for one of them to get a $500 reward for his apprehension...
...built immensity made and inhabited by slaves. Everything most bestial and most vulgar-barbarian arrogance and salesman servility; humanitarian sentimentality and hypocrisy; rotarian Big Business and Prosperity. . . . Do you really believe . . . that these awful plays are good; these wretched people happy; these revolting Jews, great leaders and prophets; these decrepit buildings, fine architecture; these dingy slums, new socialist cities; these empty slogans bawled mechanically, a new religion; these stale ideas (superficial in themselves and even then misunderstood), the foundation and hope of the future...
...notable feature of Florida, and one which last week threw important, bone-mending Dr. Fred Houdlett Albee into trouble with Manhattan doctors, is the shuffle of decrepit northerners through the State. St. Petersburg is full of garrulous oldsters who all day long wander from bench to bench recounting their symptoms. Miami streets are punctuated with the homes of colonic irrigators. Open air evangelists place ramps at curbs so that the palsied and the gouty can comfortably trundle their wheelchairs towards sanctity and health...
...line with Mayor Russell's economy program, all Cambridge's forces of law and order are being centralized in Central Square. At present all records have been cleared out of the aged and decrepit cop-cage and no more men report there; one man only works in the musty interior taking care of the call-box reports, and as soon as wiring to Central Square is installed he too will be withdrawn, and the edifice left for a pussy-cat's hunting ground...