Word: slumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been brought from an apartment in a slum area. Wondered Brunt: What was an heiress doing there...
After the family physician failed to "do something," Mrs. Silver accompanied her daughter to the two-bedroom, $40-a-month slum apartment of a bartender, Milton Schwartz and his wife, Rosalie, a hairdresser. There, the District Attorney charged, Doris was given a compound of oils, ground-up cinchona and slippery-elm bark to induce an abortion. Bits of irritating bark had reached her bloodstream and lungs, killing...
...toward his clients: the Negroes, and especially the Negroes of the South and the border states, who, facing threats of firing, or beating or even death, continue to sign the legal petitions and complaints that must be the starting point of Marshall's cases from the slum and the cotton field to the high and technical levels of the Supreme Court. Of these local N.A.A.C.P. leaders in the South, Marshall says: "There isn't a threat known to men that they do not receive. They're never out from under pressure. I don't think...
...John Marshall Jacobs of Phoenix, Ariz., one of the U.S. farmers just back from a Soviet tour, took a dim view of the future of religion in Russia. "On one occasion in Moscow," he told a reporter, "our interpreter pointed out a little domed church in the slum section, an area slated for razing and new housing projects. 'There's a so-called church,' said the interpreter. 'Nobody goes there but a few old people...
...first, Carpenter "acted like a little god," boasted he was "smarter than the cops," who had mauled him a few years before. Then, slowly, he began describing the long night of his past: an opera-loving slum kid raised on a fading section of Chicago's Schiller Street, where there was no one to talk to about opera, but only "guns and crazy money," where he found only a day-to-day, dreamless darkness-then a dreary round of petty stickups, a dead cop, the final terror of sitting on a couch, holding an innocent family...