Word: hovels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...genteel 18th Century into which it was born, Pittsburgh was the essence of a frontier culture, which it has never quite managed to shake. In recent years it has been jeeringly called an esthetic abortion, a municipal hovel, a mining town on a vast scale. It gobbled up people the way it gobbled up iron ore-people with the names of Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Yugoslavia. Some 1,000,000 of them lived and worked in the city's whole industrial complex, some 700,000 lived within the city's limits...
Searching his brain for a fresh lead on an editorial on slums, Editor P. Bernard Young of the Norfolk (Va.) Journal and Guide stared moodily out the window-and saw a Negro hovel cave in. Rushing from his office, he got pictures, a story and a bitter editorial that shocked Norfolk's officials into action. That was in 1933. Now Norfolk has four modern Negro housing developments, and Editor Young heads the Negro housing advisory commission...
...crime did not pay for the Ikedas, at least courage and persistence did. Last week their counterfeiting came to an abrupt end as police closed in on their iron hovel. Citizens of Osaka, hearing the pathetic story of Kanji and Yoshino, promptly raised and sent to the jail a sympathy fund of 18,000 yen-almost twice what the Ikedas had been able to paint for themselves...
Thus did 19-year-old Marta Skavronsky, orphan daughter of a Lithuanian serf, climb the next-to-last rung of a ladder rising from a peasant's hovel to the throne of Russia...
...happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about."-James A. McN. Whistler...