Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Olivia Robertson is a well-bred young Irishwoman who has done social work in an improved Dublin slum. Like many other social workers who make copy of their experiences, Author Robertson sometimes commits to print anecdotes and adventures that probably sounded fine at the time but, in type, only seem strained and amateurish, like a genteel effort to make a smutty-faced child blow its nose. The savor of the subject, however, often rises above her polite intentions...
Some of the slum families were consumptive, some "harmless" (a euphemism for touched in the head) and some were looked down upon for reasons of caste: tinkers, or beggars, or those who live on charity, in the tenements (once fine 18th Century houses) of Napper Tandy Street. Twisty Nellie, a professional beggar who always promised a prayer to her benefactors, explained with spirit: "Sure how could I say a prayer for each one of them separate! I'd be at it all the day. I says a little prayer for the whole huroosh." Twisty Nellie's story, like...
...problem. The problem of the Puerto Ricans is chiefly New York's; more than 90% of them land in New York City. Estimates are that 350,000 are now in burgeoning colonies in Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx. The worst congestion is in "Spanish Harlem," a slum of old, dark, dirt-crusted, cold-water tenements on Manhattan's upper East Side...
These were not the views of a socialist-baiting Tory. First as vicar of Portsea, then as bishop of South London's slum-ridden Southwark district, Dr. Garbett learned a great deal about what life is like among the poor; as an enthusiastic sponsor of his Church's famed, leftish Malvern program in wartime, he won the hearts of Anglican liberals...
...this lively joy, the Government hopes, will keep the tourists' attention from the tuberculous children of the Vallecas slums, or the cave dwellers in the sandy hills outside Madrid, or the beggars who inconsiderately paw at the sleeves of guests exhausted after a night's dancing at the lovely Ritz gardens. Madrid's unskilled workers live on cheap fish, beans, occasional rice, watered wine. The housing situation is desperate. After years of waiting, some young couples are still looking for a chance to sublet a single room in the city's cheapest slum before they...