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...hundred and forty-three years ago a broken line of men and women marched over the hard cobblestones and sharp rocks of the highway towards a suburb of Paris. Thin rags hung about them for clothes, their shoes showed great holes, and the filth of a century clung to them like a disease. On every animal face there was a snarl and a sneer that represented the discontent of a thousand others, and the lines and hollows that only starvation can leave distorted their features. They hardly knew where they were going, yet they dreamt that each painful step they...
...Corkran explained that he and Mrs. Pawley had been out for a horseback ride when bandits swooped upon them. For 44 days they lived in filth & fear less than 40 miles from Mrs. Pawley's home at Newchang, southern Manchukuo. When brought home last week "Tinko" (Mrs. Pawley) was tucked into a bed at Newchang Mission Hospital where her father, Dr. Phillips, diagnosed her condition as "feverish and fatigued from a severe cold...
...woods, let his hair grow long, pretend to be a "wild man." Declared legally incompetent by the courts, he was placed under the guardianship of Housekeeper Dockery. "Glenwood," once a fine mansion, went to wrack & ruin. Chickens, ducks, pigs, goats, dogs roamed at will through its high-ceiled rooms. Filth and trash littered the floors. Old tin cans were strewn about a dusty library of fine volumes, furniture vanished in debris. The squalid scene with its half-mad characters was strongly suggestive of the morbid Southern melodramas of Mississippi's Author William Faulkner who specializes in social decay amid...
...leaders to Johnstown to reorganize their forces retreating from Washington. His invitation was also accepted by the B. E. F. rank & file. Almost overnight an encampment of some 8.000 men, women & children sprang up in an amusement park on the outskirts of town. It teemed with filth and flies. There was little or no food. One good storm would have devastated its pup tents, lean-tos and bough huts. As a camp, it made the Anacostia bivouac look like a regular Army post. Mayor McCloskey realized he and his city were in a serious predicament...
...more money than the other Thomases, he transferred to Princeton. Upon his graduation in 1905, he took a job as a settlement worker in the New York slums. It shattered most of his dreams about the nobility of the downtrodden. Upon the wreckage, amid the dirt and filth of Spring Street, he built up a practical philosophy about the masses which serves him to this day. In 1910 he married Frances Violet Stewart. Their honeymoon was spent on a tandem bicycle. Born to the Presbyterian Ministry, he went through Union Theological Seminary, emerging, after a newsworthy dispute with his elders...