Word: squalidity
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...handsome William F. Meade, a 44-year-old ex-ward leader who had mounted to the driver's seat only three days before the scandals began, seemed almost pleased. A tough, square-jawed Irishman, he had come to the chairmanship of the Republican Central Campaign Committee from the squalid slums of the Tenth Ward (known as the Old Reliable because it never fails to produce a Republican majority). He went to work at 14, climbed up through the machine's hierarchy by ambition, hustle, a fast smile and a gift for "getting out the vote." Along...
Days On. Last week, the Daily News jolted Chicagoans with a spread of Hogarth-like pictures and the Mooney-Bird story of their 14 days in the land of "the living dead." In the twelve-part series, Reporters Mooney and Bird described the worst of 82 squalid saloons in three-quarters of a Madison Street mile (most of them selling the "morning special," a double shot of whisky for 18?), listed the names & addresses of saloonkeepers who were breaking the state liquor and health laws, and put the finger on couldn't-care-less cops...
...Done what?" asked Jim. "Raped that white woman," the cop replied. That, swears Jim Montgomery, was the first he knew that he was in real trouble. Mamie Snow, a 62-year-old white woman who peddled doughnuts in Waukegan's squalid Negro district, had been found, beaten and moaning, near the Oakwood cemetery. Mamie vowed that she had been raped and the police told Jim that she had named him as her attacker...
...Long Island Rail Road last year carried more passengers (109 million) than any other road in the U.S., yet it went bankrupt three months ago. Why? Thousands of commuters who ride in & out of Manhattan every day on its crowded, squalid, undependable trains have long thought that they had the answer to that question: they thought that the Pennsylvania Railroad, which owns the Long Island, drove its subsidiary on the rocks by overcharging it for services rendered and underpaying it for services received...
...location in Portsmouth, N.H. For his cast he recruited a handful of relatively unknown actors and a group of Portsmouth citizens. For sets he used what "was ready to hand: the chaste interiors of Portsmouth homes and the town's shaded streets, simple hospital rooms, and the squalid streets of Harlem...