Word: filth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home prove too much for him-par-ticularly after an unsuccessful attempt has been made to condemn him to Yale and he flies to New York. There he encounters another rebellious but less illusionary young person from home-a girl who finds life a hoax and love nothing but filth...
...settings, which were designed by Mr. Charles Mr. Giffith. They adequately portrayed the dirt and filth of dock-side London; yet instead of being merely disgusting, as most such scenes would be, they had a sort of the picturesqueness of the scenes, and partly to the well planned lighting effects...
...months later Leonard Wood was made commander of the recently besieged city of Santiago and quickly established cleanliness, health and order in that hotbed of filth and disease. This led to his appointment soon after as Governor-General of the new Republic of Cuba. There his task was to clean up after the disgrace of the Spanish rule, and to settle the Cuban Government upon a secure and independent footing; in short to preserve for all time the fruits of the victory of 1898. With the eyes of the whole world watching the experiment of the United States, he made...