Word: scabrously
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Nothing but Animals. First prize went to Minna Harkavy's Two Men, a dead-serious head & shoulders study of two long-nosed, lantern-jawed characters, facing each other in solemn agreement. Miss Harkavy, 56, spent more than a year chipping, brushing and sandpapering the scabrous surface of her cast stone sculpture, explained that it represented "communion, maybe between two citizens of widely separated lands...
...Puerto Rican is shy and afraid. He learns tracks through the urban jungle, never ventures far from them for fear of getting lost. Apartments are found only after a search of months and the newcomers must pay an average $600 for the furniture to fit out three cramped, scabrous rooms, renting for $25 a month...
...tenants have tiny, scabrous stone cottages, with squealing pigs on the first floor and families of six to ten in the single room above. Most suffer from malaria. Each tenant tills up to 15 hectares, pays roughly one-third of his income in rental. The average wheat crop is about four bushels per hectare (the U.S. average is 45 bushels). The soil is badly eroded. The tenants have never heard of insecticides; few know of any fertilizer other than manure, which they rarely use. They cannot afford plows; instead they hammer at the wretched soil with picks...
...typical of German callousness that this situation exists, and typical of German cleverness in turning a disgraceful situation to their own account that they draw attention to these scabrous places as proof of "German" misery...
...Flesh (Graetz; A.F.E.), when it first appeared in France a couple of years ago, caused the devil of a row. Like the celebrated autobiographical novel on which it was based,* it was rough on French national dignity (the municipal council of Bordeaux denounced it as "shocking, painful and scabrous") but enthusiastically received by the public (it ran to packed houses for more than a year...