Word: squalidity
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...Barrio. North from Manhattan's 96th Street, the railroad tracks that run muffled under fashionable Park Avenue burst noisily into the open. The proud avenue itself splits around it, plunges down into narrow, squalid lanes flanked by ancient tenements. There, in what New Yorkers now call Spanish Harlem, the Puerto Ricans clotted. The Puerto Ricans call it "the Barrio...
...Squalid Defrauder. The case itself concerned one Albert Rabinowitz-"a squalid little defrauder," Frankfurter called him -who was arrested on a warrant charging him with counterfeiting postage stamps. He was picked up in his one-room Manhattan office, which the arresting U.S. Treasury officers promptly searched. The majority opinion rested on the contention that the search & seizure of stamps as evidence were incidental to a valid arrest and did not extend beyond the room used for unlawful purposes...
...Race (by Garson Kanin; produced by Leland Hayward) is one more thrust at the hard, cold sidewalks of New York. With a colorful set representing "a piece of Manhattan," and a friendly loafer and shrewish landlady providing an antiphonal chorus, the author of Born Yesterday has portrayed a squalid world of heels and down-at-heels, of furnished rooms and finished lives. The central story, which sounds the most comforting note, begins as Boy-Meets-Girl in Act I, ends as Boy-Mates-Girl...
Actually Mr. Bowles does achieve some very fine mood creation in his descriptions of travels through the deserts from one squalid town to the next. Only when he allows his characters to become reflective does he ruin this mood...
Thin, dark-eyed Isaac Allal was the child of a poor tailor in the squalid Tunisian village of La Marsa; he grew up with the pale face and the weak lungs of a ghetto child. Then one day last month a glorious vista opened for him. Relief officials told the Allals that Isaac could go to a convalescent camp in Norway, and from there to Israel...