Word: scum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lisbon, a capital whose surpassing natural beauty and once imposing buildings have been overlaid in recent years by a scum of filth, poverty and decay, there occurred last week one more of the successful military insurrections which have rent the republic of Portugal since the overthrow of the monarchy...
...came back for Danzel?but she was gone with her father, Shadrach, to California of the '50s. Happy the man, indeed! It took a staunch lad to go that journey, but Guy went it, by Panama. For months he roamed the roaring, gold-dusted country asking the cream and scum of 40 nations, not for metal or favors, but for word of her. No woman stayed him though he succored one, a young Italienne with a snakeskin headband, quite mad with working her blind father's claim...
...Moon has sharp eyes, he may have noticed little specks moving through the gray-green scum of Earth's land, sea and inner atmosphere?specks far fleeter than the ones he had noticed in previous centuries crawling over the wide watery expanses; specks that now flit in a few days' time from sea to sea, from continent to continent...
...What do you want, you scum of the earth? Money? Tell the cook to bring a panful. But you shall dive for it today! A cold plunge...
...their custom, an enormous, hot heavenly body and a tiny cold one arrived last week at relative positions such that the tiny one shut off part of the light shed by the enormous one upon a third, a moderate-sized body covered with white, blue and green scum, which spun along hard by the tiny cold body. That is, the moon cast its solar shadow full upon the earth- a total eclipse. It happened that the shadow-an oval patch 80 miles in longitude, about 180 in latitude, traveling side wise from west to east just north of the equator...