Word: fetid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...centre squats a row of verminous flats. To the right rises a grimy coal chute. And all across the front stretches a pier-end from which urchins dive with a splash into what normally would be the orchestra pit, but which gives every illusion of being the fetid East River...
...Among the noble qualities of the Soviet citizen is class hatred," cried Komsomolskaya Pravda. "It is a sage and profound feeling of organic hatred toward the enemy-toward all the filthy, abominable remnants of the old world, its wolfish laws and fetid life. . . . Irreconcilable, inflexible, untamable hate should be nourished by every worker, by every collective farm worker, by every soldier and office employe, by every teacher and artist, because this hate is a great, heroic, sacred hate which belongs to the proletariat...
...Trenton Counsel Fisher & associates sought a new trial from the New Jersey Court of Errors & Appeals. Also on hand was Attorney General David T. Wilentz, the man who did more than any other to convict Hauptmann. In marked contrast to the scene at the trial court with its fetid air, crowded benches, hustling newsmen, was the great, placid, colonial chamber of the Court of Errors & Appeals, whose floor is carpeted in rich burgundy red, whose walls are filled with great legal tomes, whose broad windows look out upon the Delaware River. No one was admitted except those on official business...
Skoits, inelegant in the fetid atmosphere of a saloon, but still skoits. Chinamen burn while Chuck Connors' mob fights Steve Brodie's gang for possession of the fire hydrant--an especially humorous scene since we have as a background to this massacre a delightful picture of good-natured Swipes throwing a brick through a window, upsetting a kerosene lamp. Crowds throng the banks of the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge, small boats loaded with inebriated gamblers drift in a semi-circle...
...laden air of Southern mills. But their child labor prohibition was packed with moral dynamite which might yet blow the anachronistic practice out of all industry. Next to cotton mills, clothing factories suck in more girls and boys than any other U. S. industry. Most of them are dark. fetid "sweatshops" where youngsters trim and stitch and sew on buttons at starvation wages. But because so much of this cheap dress & shirt work is done in tenement homes, no reliable figures are available of children employed or wages paid. In a Brooklyn factory lately investigators found 5-year-old girls...