Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last month Jerome Connor vanished for the last time. At the age of 67, in a Dublin slum, he died. Last week, Jerome Connor's friends formed a committee to have his work completed by another sculptor in order to "save Ireland's honor...
Light-skinned Alex Bernal was born in California 32 years ago of Mexican parents. Until 1937 he lived in the jampacked slum hovels (shared by Negroes and Mexicans), just beyond the Santa Fe tracks in Fullerton, Calif, (pop. 10,680). Last March, after six years of farming elsewhere, Alex Bernal came home to Fullerton to manage a truck garden, found trouble as well as work...
...twelfth to her seventeenth year in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn before and during World War I. The book has most of the time-tested character types and situations in fiction: Katie, the hardworking, self-sacrificing mother; Johnny, the lovably alcoholic, singing-waiter father; Francie, the good, book-loving slum child who yearns to be a writer; Neeley, her little brother; and an assortment of incredible relatives, including a peasant grandmother who speaks with the wisdom of Confucius and the force of the King James Version...
British Untouchables. That the difference between Indian and British slum conditions is largely a matter of scale is revealed by Our Towns: A Close-Up. The insanitary state of the evacuated slum children was comparable to that of the Indian untouchables: about 20% of these children had head lice, especially the young ones and the older girls who never comb their hair in order to preserve permanent waves. More than a quarter of Sheffield's school children had skin diseases (most common: the itch). Many children had never been fed a hot meal, never used forks or spoons...
...From Our Towns: Close Up, a new book about the British slum-children evacuees: head lice were found on 20.8% of the Liverpool children, 19.8% of the Middlesbrough children and 17.3%of the Manchester children...