Word: slum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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EGGS AND BAKER - John Masefield - Macmillan ($2.50). The Dickens-like story of a deeply religious baker in a small English town of the 1870's who, influenced by a theatrical radical leader named Engels, agitates against slum conditions, is driven out of business, goes to jail for throwing an egg at the judge who condemns two poachers to death...
...Fresh Air Fund for providing slum children with country outings...
Meanwhile Britain's press, resuming the regular Fleet Street routine on King Edward's return, generally told last week how distressed His Majesty appeared as he looked at pictures of working class slum houses shown to him at a new Housing Exhibition. His comment: "Pretty grim!" At sight of a poster reading Rents Still Too High, His Majesty nodded and inspected maps showing where they are too high-among other places in areas privately owned by King Edward. With what British papers described as a "grimace," His Majesty pointed out his own Duchy of Cornwall from which...
Collaborators are somewhat in the position of two men trying to see the same object through a single pair of binoculars: when it is in focus for one, it is blurred and out of perspective to the other. Two years ago two British writers, one a Glasgow slum dweller, the other a London journalist, turned their imaginative spyglass on the squalid, violent Gorbols section of Glasgow, on the south bank of the Clyde. Last week they reported on what they had seen, in a strange uneven book that suggested they could not quite agree on their findings. They saw horrors...
...tale revolves around Johnnie Stark, a petty gangster who fought with razors, picked up one girl after another, married, led his gang against the gangs of other slum districts, was eventually killed when hoodlums caught him without his weapons. His story is paralleled by that of his brother, Peter, who was driven by a fierce determination to get out of the slums, became a white-collar worker, married a good, respectable girl, but landed in trouble when he was forced to lead a strike. Aside from these two, the clearest characterization is Lizzie, Johnnie's wife, who married beneath...