Word: scum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twittering from the shires. At the Cabaret Club, the London Daily Express found "a great big, graceful, healthy girl," Miss Eunice Allman, who explained that her work consists in "soothing bruised egos," begged, "If you're writing about us, don't make us out to be the scum of the earth. We're not so bad." In general the press survey went far toward confirming Sir John Anderson's evident feeling that there can be nothing very awful about even such ostentatiously "lowlife" dives as the Nut Club in Greek Street so long as its regular...
Last spring Pat Lyons found something. Having looked for but failed to discover a refrigerated slaughter chamber where the Butcher might have worked, he made friends with a circle of human scum in which two of the identified victims had moved: Mrs. Florence Polillo (No. 4), a prostitute, and Edward W. Andrassy (No. 2), a pervert. From their friends Pat Lyons learned that one Frank Dolezal knew them both, that he was with the Polillo woman the night police believed she was killed. Frank Dolezal drank a good deal, was fond of knives. Block-jawed, muscular, he used...
...Eyck was worth an exhibition all by itself. This tiny (8¾ inches by 6 inches) painting on wood came all the way from the National Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, where it is valued at $250,000. Until 1922 it lurked, under a heavy scum of varnish, in the murk of Ince Hall, near Liverpool. When the Australian gallery bought and cleaned it, English art-lovers cried aloud to see it lost to the Antipodes. So infinite in detail and so opulent are the Madonna's cascaded red robe, blue tunic and gold embroidered background that the painting seems...
American Landscape (by Elmer Rice; produced by The Playwrights' Company). In the fall of 1934, after two of his plays (Judgment Day, Between Two Worlds) had been panned, Elmer Rice, calling first-night audiences "the scum of the earth," savagely forswore the theatre. But when The Playwrights' Company was formed last spring, Rice quietly chucked away his vow. Last week his American Landscape followed the Company's Knickerbocker Holiday and Abe Lincoln in Illinois to Broadway...
...including General Yague, these cities might not have so greatly suffered. General Yague was said to have added with typical Spanish braggadocio that to win the war there is no need of "General Franco's foreign entanglements" and that the Germans and Italians now helping the Rightists are scum "who behave like beasts," in contrast to the fine Spanish qualities of many Leftist fighters...