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...wrote, "the leaders in Germany, Italy and Russia have discovered how to use new social and economic forces.. . . They have felt the wave of the future and they have leapt upon it. The evils we deplore in these systems are not in themselves the future; they are scum on the wave of the future." To her it was futile for the U. S. to get into "a hopeless 'crusade' to save civilization." The task of the U. S. was peaceful reformation at home...
Herbert Asbury has spent the last twelve years hobnobbing with the shades of shady characters. No. 1 shammer in the past of U. S. cities, he returns from each exploration with a rich scum of superlatives. The Gangs of New York (1928) found old Manhattan a gaslit Gomorrah without peer. The Barbary Coast (1933) offered pre-earthquake San Francisco as the most vicious spot in the U. S. The French Quarter (1936) revealed New Orleans unrivaled in vice on a sinful planet. This week, with Gem of the Prairie, Mr. Asbury peers down the cesspool of Chicago, convincingly awards...
...damn Republicans - scum of the earth...
...soon as the last Jew is driven out of Germany the rest of Europe, which is awaiting a German peace, may know this peace must be one without Jews. . . " Germany's and Italy's victory will secure space far away from European labor and culture where the scum of humanity may try to lead a life of its own toil or die a death it earned...
...also Jerry). A chambermaid is a skivvy, a woman, a hag. Tea, coffee or cocoa is hogwash or pigswill. A boy who studies hard, swots, is treated with the contempt which he deserves. Many and lurid are the names for a new boy: new brat, new squit, new scum, fresh herring. Richest and nastiest is the group of epithets schoolboys apply to townies, the lowest form of animal life, or schoolmates they dislike. Samples: swine, tick, cad, oik, lout, drip, squirt, scug, goof. Townies often retaliate: e.g., their name for schoolboys of Durham University is varsity tits...