Word: squalidity
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Mayhem and yellow faces are allied for eternity in the card files of the Amalgamated American Cinematic Producers Inc. The "Son-Daughter" follows an ancient and well worn path. There are hatchet-men lurking in every misty street; twitching bodies are hurled from burly coaches into squalid streets; gentlemen with slanted eyes find their necks stretched in uncomfortable machines while a merry troop of rats nibbles their big toes; there is the sparse fellow with a shredded wheat beard who carries poison under his finger nails. And just because 5000 miles away a Revolution is being conducted in China...
Protest was crudely but plainly indicated in the cover design, labeled "Saint Andy of Pittsburgh." It showed a cadaverous, ansel-winged Andrew Mellon against a red sky, plucking a harp above a sordid panorama of smoking mill chimneys, squalid shacks, starved workers, silk-hatted bankers slipping money to corrupt politicians. This illustrated W'riter Liggett's leading, lengthy article: "Mr. Mellon's Pittsburgh-Symbol of Corruption." Other features: "News Behind The News," a querulous "debunking" of the fortnight's political and economic news; "Children Are Starving" by one Lillian Symes; political pin-sticking by Robert...
Through the squalid streets of Zlatshev, a small Polish town near Lemberg. hurried excited Jews one day last month. They had heard-as had many a Jew throughout Galicia-of a wonderful thing that was happening at their synagog. Other Poles might call the Galician Jews vulgar and ignorant. But they had a saint, pious Pinchas Bloch. He was even now crouching on the synagog steps. Chanting psalms, clutching his long beard, he was praying God to send the Jewish people a Messiah. Until then, Pinchas Bloch would eat no food, move not from the synagog. The Zlatshev Jews prayed...
Unperturbed, H. R. H. pursued his task of inspecting the squalid East End, a job Edward of Wales used to do before passing it on to his younger brother. Last week the mob grew less & less appreciative, finally broke a British law which provides that while Parliament is sitting no demonstration shall take place within one mile of Parliament...
...Emerson D, would glance across the heads of his listeners at the Gothic tower and exclaim: "Gentlemen, take Memorial Hall for instance. What else could you take it for!" Nor would he visit Memorial Hall sixty years after, to see the deserted dining hall, cramped Sanders Theatre, the squalid ruin of false tiffany. For the Vagabond sees only the frost-blushed ivy on a fine full day in the dawnlight, remembers only the inspiring sight of the citadel lighted blue green by moonlight and snow, and he rejoices in his retreat...