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...Flea Bark...
Everywhere is the contrast between hunger and extravagance. Thousands eat nothing but dried beans, carrots or potatoes boiled in water. But those who have the money can get black market meat in every butcher shop; eggs at 25 francs apiece; snowy cakes bootlegged by confiseurs. The Flea Market is now a speakeasy for costly groceries...
...William Blake contemn reason and paint the ghost of a flea...
...Carson Pirie Scott, The Fair, etc.) that line the upper part of Chicago's No. 1 shopping thoroughfare. But south of Van Buren Street, lower boundary of the "L" loop, there is an equally famous part of State Street: a scabrous collection of saloons, shooting galleries, hock shops, flea markets, peep shows, "red hot" burlesques and flophouses ("clean quiet comfort for 30?"), smack in the middle of Chicago's notorious First Ward, once an important Al Capone domain...
Addis Ababa is a mixture of the old and the new. British officialdom marches jauntily about the Italian-built offices. Masses of unemployed move aimlessly about the streets. Flea-bitten donkeys mourn past, laden with Ethiopian ladies under umbrellas. Occasionally a slicked-up Ethiopian sport in an appropriated, yellow Alfa-Romeo roadster splits the crowds...