Word: hovels
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Starting a new slum clearance drive in Rome Benito Mussolini bounded to the roof of a moldering hovel, swung a housewrecker's pick with spectacular results. As Il Duce's suspenders snapped and he grabbed for his trousers, the crumbling roof gaped open at his feet and fellow Fascists had to jerk him back to safety...
...Wiggs family, waiting patiently for Father Wiggs to return gold-laden from the Klondike, occupies a mean little hovel in the cabbage patch. Mrs. Wiggs takes in washing, Billy Wiggs sells wood, and with the other little Wiggs, they receive each buffet of fate with cheerful fortitude. When such blessings as a decrepit, sway-backed horse, or perhaps a Thanksgiving basket from the beautiful benefactress on the hill, happen to come along, the Wiggs star has ascended to heights unknown. But despite the kindness of a newspaper editor (Kent Taylor) and his sweetheart (Evelyn Venable) the cough of little Jimmy...
...parents of Fleur, the prostitute, were illiterate. French-Canadian mill hands, the father an alcoholic, the mother notoriously immoral. Fleur's first affair, when 11, was with the father of her mother's bastard. The family lived in squalid poverty, were chased from hovel to hovel, sometimes for not paying rent, sometimes for debauching the neighborhood. Fleur's adolescent peccadillos took place in cellars. Later she became a common street walker...
...stinking hovel of a Tiflis locksmith, Sergei Alliluiev, a brown-eyed girl was born in 1902. As an infant she grew accustomed to the furtive visits of a tall, violent, smoldering-eyed man who talked Revolution to her father, receiving in exchange deftly filed pass keys and professional advice on how to handle combination locks...
...nationalities; the wrong attitude of class toward class in society; great wealth and luxury and abject poverty within sight of each other, but separated by an impassable gulf; leisure because of no need to work and enforced idleness because of no opportunity to work; the palace towering over the hovel; privilege and underprivileged...