Word: squalor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Webbs did not yet suspect the revolutionary upheavals that were to come. From her retreat in the "delightful countryside," Beatrice could look back over the furious past, and nostalgically recapture old memories of committees, boards, councils, intrigues and, above all, "the river Thames sweeping through the splendor and squalor of the birthplace of the 19th Century capitalist dictatorship...
...Yorkers are proud of almost everything but their schools. They know that most of these are nothing to brag about: often dingy and dilapidated, the teachers underpaid and overworked, the classrooms overcrowded and dirty. New Yorkers have suspected that the city's worst schools are in the costive squalor of Harlem. But just how bad Harlem's schools are, few New Yorkers knew until last week...
...York's Congressman Ellsworth B. Buck, after a visit to Bedloe Island, cried out that the Statue of Liberty "is disgraced and demeaned by the inexcusable neglect and squalor about her," announced that he would seek a congressional appropriation of $750,000 to beautify the grimy grounds around the statue...
John Bunyan, whose great work is as famed as Richard Hooker's is obscure. The zealous tinker, who won his youthful struggle against the sins of swearing, Sunday afternoon games and dancing, spent twelve years in the filth and squalor of Bedford jail for refusing to stop his "unlicensed preaching." But it was probably during a second, briefer imprisonment, in 1675, that he "fell suddenly into an allegory" and produced his well-known work, Pilgrim's Progress...
...godless little acre of squalor and lechery staked out by Novelist Erskine Caldwell has been tilled to exhaustion (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre, Tragic Ground). But Caldwell still goes on. His latest harvest is an unappetizing literary turnip called The Sure Hand...