Word: squalidity
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...required to pass his well-loved wives around among his friends, to lose a wife, to murder, and to suffer excess of thought; through all these turns with lady Fate, he avoids heroics, and at the same time veers away from the equally dangerous wall of intellectually squalid sentimentality which might so easily block his performance; he covers a middle-ground of mindless, emotionally dulled savagery which is absolutely genuine. The Eskimos in minor roles are ably directed; the more difficult parts, Mala's wives, are treated with a surprising delicacy...
...dealers, and both Vincent and Theo got jobs in the business. Theo did well from the start, but Vincent took it, like everything else, too hard. Fired from his job, he plucked up enough conceit to enter the Church as a lay-reader, got himself sent to a squalid hole in Belgium as a missionary. There too he went too far, scandalized the churchly authorities by giving away his money, his clothes, his bed. Fired again, he stayed on with his poor people, began to draw them and send his sketches to Brother Theo. A draughtsman in a Brussels garret...
...reporters now refer to it as a rat-haunt, shudder at its squalid gloom. To Ben Day it was the amazing manifestation of a newspaper idea he had conceived, toyed with, but left to others to carry through...
...Miss Hall-Miss Helen Hall -the new Head Worker. She had come up from Philadelphia to run the Henry Street Settlement as successor to Lillian Wald who founded it 40 years ago. When Lillian Wald, a well-born Jewess who had been studying nursing and medicine, first visited the squalid East Side and saw a sick woman lying neglected in a stinkhole, she resolved to do something about it. With a friend she moved into the slums. Two years later, in 1895, the late Jacob Schiff was so impressed with Miss Wald's work that he bought...
...where French and Spanish women performed; the Morgue, where the proprietor maintained a standing offer of five free drinks to any man who could find undergarments on one of his pretty waiter girls. Besides the dancehalls and saloons, Pacific Street and vicinity had its cheap "cow-yards" which were squalid honeycombs of harlots' cubicles and more expensive parlor houses. Pitiful, and far more shameful, were the Chinese cribs, filled with slave girls bought or kidnapped in China by agents of San Francisco dealers...