Word: filth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been intending to cancel my subscription to TIME for the same reason the Rev. Father and Mr. Applegate give. "The Chaplin case" [TiME, Jan. 24] has decided it. The Literary Digest gives me all the news without filth thrown...
...punishing judges who allow themselves to be seduced by the thought (if not by anything more tangible) that "it will leak out anyway." A few realized that the only medicine for a sick society is an overdose of the original poison. It remained to be seen if the Browning filth would give rise to an antibody in the public current of thought, or if a still fouler injection was inevitably in store...
...side of the human, fence began to run wild on our side of the human fence. . . . Remember that I think these Baumes laws, or any other of the type are just lazy. They don't get down to the cause of anything. They don't remember the filth and dirt in which these men live. . . . account what it is that makes some people get on the wrong side of the human fence...
...England has been almost totally paralyzed by the rise in the development of water power and its use in manufacturing. The poverty in some of the coal districts is terrifying and almost unbelievable. In the southern part of Wales people are living on crusts of bread, amid conditions of filth that defy description. It is among the workers in such quarters as these that the sentiment for a powerful Labor party arises. You will find very little Labor sentiment among the agricultural sections, or at the fashionable watering places. It is all among the working classes themselves who have suffered...
...enormously fat with age, gripping the Apocalypse in his pocket, supporting a parasitic swarm of lawyers until he had to shine shoes to support himself. It knew Carpenter Marshall of New Jersey, too, whose pickaxe pried loose Sutter's hellgate; Marshall escaped from his asylum once and dug filth from Washington's guttters, screaming, "There is gold everywhere, everywhere!" One June afternoon in 1880, old Sutter sat on the steps of the Capitol, pondering Justice. Malicious newboys ran up and told him that congress had just awarded him 100 millions of indemnity. Old Sutter jumped up, stiffened...