Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Jacob Riis, the eminent humanitarian, started his campaign for amelioration of the living conditions of the poor, the American slum had already come to be regarded as a social evil of primary importance. Years of agitation and legislation have reaped no material harvest, and the slums are now larger, filthier, and a more serious menace than ever. Recently New York officials were forced to evacuate a few of that city's 4,000 or more firetraps, of which three immediately justified the move by burning to the ground--or rather to the dingy concrete courts which surrounde...
...TIME'S owners, you represent the small group with money which will resist stubbornly and blockheadedly to the very last any effort to change the evil state of affairs in America which Roosevelt is so admirably battling. Your colored reporting on the Morgan testimony was revolting. Your effort to work up sympathy for an old -* rolling in money who was too blind and grasping to contribute toward the expenses of the very government which was trying to prevent his kind from being exterminated was disgusting, and unfortunately there are more counts against you of the same nature...
...months the bullet-riddled body of Alexandre Stavisky has mouldered in its grave. But the evil shadow of this arch-swindler continued to march on through the ranks of French politics, striking in the dark like a vampire at large. Paris newspapers, seldom more than 16 pages, are not given to over-writing the news. Of the 30 columns of news in last Sunday's Matin, 14 were definitely concerned with the Stavisky scandal...
...neighbor's sick baby. From head to foot over the infant, lying on a table beneath his rapt gaze, he draws the red string from which he then plucks some invisible thing and casts it aside. He mutters "sanctious words," with his own hand scoops away the evil aura enveloping the small body. Smiling, he refuses payment from the reassured mother...
...churches his blessing was given to those desiring cure or prevention. Holding aloft two crossed candles priests intoned: "Per intercessionem Sancti Blasii liberet te Deus a malo gutteris et a quovis alio malo" (May God at the intercession of St. Blasius preserve you from throat trouble and every other evil...