Word: squalidity
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...appeal for Red Cross aid three weeks ago. American Red Cross Chairman John Barton Payne refused, regretted he could help only in disasters due to "act of God." Governor Pinchot sighed and went off fishing. The Press was full of horrid details of hungry Pennsylvania families awaiting eviction from squalid shacks; of small children, denied milk, eating dandelions...
...confer with Prime Minister MacDonald he does not want to stay at Hampstead's Indian Hostel as expected, but at her settlement house. Reporters found Kingsley Hall very clean and neat, smelling slightly of disinfectant. It has a large flat roof from which St. Gandhi may survey the squalid East End, and a large bronze bell, presented by white-whiskered First Commissioner of Works George Lansbury...
...Bustamente, reluctant as he was to broadcast such a squalid story about his country, hoped to learn at Washington last week of some immunizing agent against Filariae. There seems to be none. But it is possible to prevent the spread of their infestation by stopping the breeding of gnats which carry the eggs of the worm from one highlander to another...
...squalid, sweltering Muscat last week the Sultan of Oman was glad within him: from Washington had come good news. Henry Lewis Stimson, the faraway, almost mythical Secretary of State of the U. S. was in a mood to play Santa Claus. His gift: revision of a treaty into which Sultan Seyed Syeed Bey was inveigled by shrewd Yankee traders 97 years ago. which provided that U. S. citizens should always be welcomed to Oman's ports, be free to sell or barter their wares without being charged a tariff duty of more than 5%. Also included was a clause...
...this novel enmeshed himself in the Bohemian bedlam of Greenwich Village. There he met two women. Rita was a poetess, incandescent, fitful, tender. They read poetry in Rita's squalid little room until many dawns. But she did not return his love, and when she left the city he sought out Daisy...