Word: scum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after 45 minutes in the water, from the torpedoed British Galatea (TIME, Dec. 29). He corrected first reports that he had been hospitalized afterwards in Alexandria-he had only gone to bed in a hotel. But he still suffers from severe headaches in consequence of shock and swallowing oil scum...
...France challenged other values. France was more than a country. It was source and symbol of the most gracious, rational and rarified in Western civilization. In this sense, when France fell, night fell. To this dark fact men tried to readjust themselves in books like Arthur Koestler's Scum of the Earth ($2.50); Hans Habe's A Thousand Shall Fall ($3); Thomas Kernan's able and objective France on Berlin Time...
...SCUM OF THE EARTH-Arthur Koestler -Macmillan...
...found himself behind the barbed wire with Croat peasant partisans, Spanish syndicalists, Czech liberals, Italian socialists, Hungarian and Polish Communists, German undergrounders, Russians of various political shades whose only common denominator was that they hated Stalin and denounced one another to the French Surete Nationale. All these were "the scum of the earth." Nearly all "bore the physical or mental marks of torture and persecution in the countries from which they had escaped, and for a more enlightened [French] administration these marks should have been regarded as the stamp of their bona fides and loyalty." But they were indesirables...
...manliness against each other. Crimson Crimson candidates push into backstage dressing rooms for exclusive interviews. Reverent Yale men drop in on their pilgrimages to the nearby Waldorf where a plaque marks the birthplace of Eli Yale--across the street from the current Crawford House. At the Old Howard the scum and the cream of society finds a common denominator. And, quite different from Boston's more pretentious musical revues, dress is informal even on opening nights at the friendly little theatre off Scollay Square...