Word: hovel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near the top of that hill we found a little hovel roofed by dripping banana leaves. Into this squalid hole two Chinese had crawled to die. One had already done so. I filled the dying man's rusty tin with water from a stream. He thanked me and fumbling feebly in his clothes offered me a battered cigaret. I did not accept...
...character he approves of is a burly bootmaker with a fierce pride in his own dignity, who works hard to support his wretched family in a hovel, and who joins a union promptly after his new employers have told...
...happen to know that per population Helena is the richest city in the U. S. next to Washington, D. C.? That there are still lots of millionaires in this "hovel"? That the miners and ranchers around here are plenty rich ? That...