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Throughout his adventures, however, Private Wheeler kept a certain Somerset point of view. "What an ignorant, superstitious, priest-ridden, dirty, lousy set of poor Devils are the Portuguese," he snorts, after his first look at the people whose country he is fighting to save. "The filthiest pigs sty is a palace to the filthy houses in this dirty stinking City [Lisbon] ... In the middle of the day the sunny sides of the streets swarms with men and women picking the vermin from their bodies, and it is no uncommon sight to see two respectively [sic] dressed persons meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Soldier's Letters | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

...weather was typical Army-Navy football game weather, without snow - it was the filthiest day with the coldest and slickest mud Americans had ever seen on July 4th. But the Australians stuck it out despite the fact that many of the 6,000, who paid a total of ?500, had to stand in an icy wind. At the game's end, the Australians applauded politely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Yanks v. Diggers | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...Quarantine Station on Angel Island two Public Health Service doctors confirmed what immigration officials had suspected and what Dr. Kagawa's friends have known for years: he suffers from trachoma. He contracted this highly infectious eye disease during the 14 years he voluntarily spent in the filthiest slums of Kobe, laying a solid foundation for his views as a Christian radical. After 13 operations, Dr. Kagawa has lost the sight of one eye, must use a powerful magnifying glass to read with the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Quarantined Christian | 12/30/1935 | See Source »

...writes up a wedding, as he did the day before he launched off into Eternity, should be destroyed as a fetid pestilence: Had the editor of La Scinana (probably the filthiest publication in the world, and. sad to say, is under the protection of the United States of America: through the influence of a very powerful American insurance company) had its editor, Carbo, Sergio Carbo, been similarly destroyed, several years ago, the moral tone of every last child in Cuba would have been spared the infamous pollution that Carbo has fouled its receptive mind with; so insidiously degrading and degenerate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

Last week Chicago saw to a close what many named the filthiest, most nauseating political campaign in the city's history. Nearly 1,000,000 voters swarmed about the polls. Police squads in cars, armed with rifles and machine guns patrolled the streets; state militia stood ready to answer riot calls. It seemed probable that onetime Mayor William Hale Thompson, Republican, would again be elected Mayor; but followers of William E. Dever, Democrat, present mayor, were full of hope. Dr. John Dill Robertson, Independent, also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ad Nauseam | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

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