Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the shelters crowded Jews, Gentiles, pickpockets, lovers. Crime was non-existent in London last week, the lawless taking shelter with their victims. Burglar alarms, set off by concussion, rang aimlessly for hours. Love was almost as difficult, since there was no privacy in shelters and little time during the day. Snobbery survived. Better-dressed people in some apartment houses refused to enter shelters with the proletariat, insisted on sitting on back stairways...
...terrible war is. We read the dispatches from Europe, telling of Belgium being tortured to extinction, and France agonizing for her very life, shuddered, remarked "War is an awful thing," and turned to the financial page, content with our three full meals a day and our security from lawless nations. We have been told that great wealth is consumed in war, and that brave men die. Which is all very true...