Word: filth
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Until 1935 there was little to trouble a knobbly-kneed schoolgirl, Tsahai, about her father's rambling stone house or his loose-woven kingdom in Ethiopia. Going back home from school in Switzerland or France, she noticed unhappily the filth and disease which flourished on the ignorance of her father's people. And there was her father's household law, confining her to hidden rooms of the palace. But there were compensations...
...small boy in a tattered dhoti idly dawdled toe marks in the deep dust. Monsoon skies were slate-grey overhead. The oppressive heat gave added pungency to the smell of human filth in the Girgaun district of Bombay's slums. Shopkeepers moved listlessly; talk dribbled in the bazaars. Suddenly everything changed. Word sputtered from mouth to mouth that the British Raj had jailed Mahatma Gandhi...
...played Hercules to Detroit's Augean stables was nearly ready to lay down his muckrake this week. In three years he had cleaned up more filth than any other municipal investigator in U.S. history, had mopped up $1,000,000 worth of graft, had swept out gambling and vice rackets which took in $20,000,000 a year, had pitchforked nearly a dozen city officials and scores of corrupt policemen. Now the middeny stables were sweet-smelling again. The name of this Hercules: Homer Ferguson...
Final say went to Edward J. Flanagan-Father Flanagan of Boys Town-who spoke at the conference's closing sessions on religious radio programs. Said he: "...We must not permit ourselves to be smeared with the same moral filth we are criticizing in our enemies." Who won the argument only coming broadcasts can tell...
...nation the New Order captured was Germany. The numbing sickness of conquest has infected Germany, too. Nine years of incessant, pulverizing propaganda, liberally sprinkled with lurid obscenities concerning the private lives of Jews and others not in Nazi favor, have so poisoned and fevered the German mind that the filth-on-the-air technique has been turned against certain Nazi officials by such mysterious enemies as "The Chief," who operates an outlaw radio station somewhere in or near Germany and tells of the private vices of his victims with salacious gusto...