Word: squalidity
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Their wars do not interest U. S. citizens except objectively, for most Americans cannot tell one tonger from another. It is only within the meagre, squalid, Chinese districts that a war constitutes any menace. These are but the wars of laundrymen, waiters...
...their nuggets, he meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes that "America must round her territories by the sea," that he must help her by becoming the Napoleon of Nicaragua. Peter drinks deep of destiny, joins him. On the squalid, turbulent breast of Central America, they achieve momentary success. There is all the usual panoply of historical romance: the storming of ancient citadels, the intrigue of Bourbon-breath'd henchmen, the moneyed powers, the lovely Senorita de Avila who dies heroically so that Peter may live. Filibuster Walker...
...Boston Medical Institute" and "The Belleview* Medical Institute" of Chicago. These were one and the same firm, using the same office suite but with entrances on different streets to divert suspicion, an oldtime quack stunt. Old Doc Embry uses the same method?"Dr. Embry" on the door of a squalid office for Negroes, "The Parker Health Institute" on a communicating office door for whites. His gyp game is to thrill and mystify the patient by the intimated cure-all powers of the Xray. His staff found the Tribune man very ill, but curable for $90, $20 down...
...themselves wildly, swear they are criollos (creoles), but they will be mestizos, sambos, and even mulattoes, distinctions the Creightons will soon learn. These servitors, and people even more wretched, such as the native Indians, live in the southeast section of the city, down towards Lake Texcoco, in huddles of squalid cabins and terraces. Their mortality is terrible in spite of the high altitude (7,415 ft. above sea level) and the fine climate (temperate...
Great Britain. The Thames flooded the gardens of Windsor Castle, and forced the abandonment of Eton, famed British public school. Londoners rubbed their eyes as "a beautiful bungalow" floated past the squalid Limehouse docks. Indefatigable vicars rounded up their flocks and conveyed them to Sunday service in punts. The general flood situation improved notably...