Word: sewermen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clean and decent poor" (famed Backbone of England) and for "the brotherhood of working journalists, salt of the earth." For criminals, his specialty, he has neither admiration nor sympathy-"not even a sneaking sympathy. They are a little less interesting than lunatics, a little less romantic than sewermen. Their lives are drab and ugly, fuggy and fusty, and the majority 'go crook' only because they are too lazy or too unintelligent to earn an honest living." Yet he makes them both interesting and romantic in yarns that palpitate with thrills and suspense, mystery and bizarre glamor...
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