Word: squalorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trio had been called as a result of developments earlier in the week. From witness after witness the Committee had heard more about strike conditions in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Clergymen and newsgatherers (including passionate Fannie Hurst) had brought fresh tales of squalor, brutality, poverty, Bolshevism...
...sobriety, chastity, bonds, nerve and identity. The world believes him the victim of bandits. Repentant, he obscures himself to preserve that illusion for the good name of his beloved children. Years later, the bedraggled old Zeus is pictured peeping through frost-dimmed windows to behold from his own shadowed squalor the riches and happiness of his grown-up family. While Mr. Jannings is on the screen, as he is most of the time, even the bleary portions of the film are compelling...
...room 8 ft. long, 5 ft. wide, 4 ft. high, equipped with stove and, for shelving, boxes. Their food they got by diligent search of the public market garbage buckets. No wastrels, no disturbers of the public peace, the two old beldams were permitted to continue peacefully in their squalor...
...light and sweetness compared to London's drab East End. Mist from the Thames and smoke, soot-laden, wrap the long Limehouse streets in a depressing pall of grey. Vice in the East End is as commonplace as elsewhere, though perhaps a bit more furtively unclean. Yet East End squalor has its attractions for aristocrats. Smart Londoners go there occasionally, as do Manhattanites to Harlem's "Black Belt." Blue-blooded Socialists like Lady Cynthia Mosely, daughter of the late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, dabble there in soapbox oratory.* Thither, for an escape from decorum, went last week Edward of Wales...
...master" of the cinema, has attempted the sublime. The first few minutes of The Sorrows of Satan do suggest a Miltonic vastness, but shortly thereafter the film settles down to a good little "heart interest" story about love in the tenements. Here, midst Dickens-like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo Cortez). At just the wrong moment, with a fierce fanflare of natural phenomena, the ominous Satan (Adolphe Menjou), looking immensely urbane and a wee bit weary, overshadows the scene, lures away the unfortunate bride-groom-to-be from the still more...