Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the last three months of her pregnancy, pious, 24-year-old Mrs. Esperanza Sacramenta Rafael of Manila lay in bed gazing at a chromo of Christ pointing to his exposed, bleeding heart. Last fortnight, in a small hospital in the Tondo slum district, Mrs. Rafael gave birth to a seven-pound baby girl, named Maria Corazon (Mary Heart). The baby's heart, faintly beating, lay on her chest, outside her body. Mrs. Rafael's friends, who thronged to the hospital, stoutly maintained that the baby's condition was due to Mrs. Rafael's daily adoration...
...city of Bombay one night last week the big hotel restaurants were virtually empty because most of the waiters were drunk. In the slum section 20,000 women and 50,000 textile workers paraded to celebrate the downfall of liquor, undisturbed by crowds thronging shops to get their last drink of toddy, the potent, fresh or fermented palm tree sap which, retailing for 4? a pint, gives India's native drinkers most of their alcohol. At the Royal Yacht Club Britons drank champagne and sang Auld Lang Syne as midnight struck and prohibition went into effect in the Bombay...
...Prophet Herbert George Wells, 72, published in England his 85th book, The Fate of Homo Sapiens. He contended that it is "still just possible" that democratic brainwork may avert Man's fate; otherwise mankind, "which began in a cave, will end in the disease-soaked ruins of a slum...
...Heifetz, Heifetz plays Saint-Saëns' Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso one night at Carnegie Hall. In the audience is a slum boy (Gene Reynolds), who found a ticket in the lobby, failed to sell it to anyone at the door. Heifetz' fiddle stirs in this embryonic cutpurse the will to resume his own studies on the violin. When the charitable music school which takes him in finds itself in an understandable financial jam, Heifetz is touched for a $5 bill, promises to attend the school's concert if he can. Although making him keep this amiable...
Purpose of the meeting was to weld the scattered defense leagues into a national pressure group with a program of slum clearance, Government rent control, increased legal responsibilities for landlords. Although the Labor Party lawyers' Haldane Club supplies it with free legal advice, no political party except the Communist has yet taken official notice of the Federation...