Word: squalorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stepney Borough Council (London) decided that certain Limehouse slums must go. The Condemnation Commissioner went to have a look at the squalor-stricken old houses, where finnan haddie has been smoked for the past 150 years. He was met with a storm of opposition. Nobody wanted nice, new, sanitary homes, not even the large families sleeping six and more in a bedroom. "How would our homer pigeons find their way back?" they asked. "Could fish be cured on stone landings ?" "Could wireless aerials be strung across asphalt courtyards?" Limehouse now has its blues...
While the thought of eliminating the squalor of living conditions among Indians is praiseworthy, it cannot be accomplished without also upsetting old religious rites, such as the sun dance, and the snake dance of the Zunis. Modern plumbing an hygienic living conditions, the goal of the Red Cross, cannot help breeding a sense of unreality when the snake dance is performed. The Indian civilization, such as it was must be supplanted entirely or not at all. The mind cannot retain the customs and religion of the past when the body is living so ardently in the present. The Indian himself...
...settled by referring it to a commission for examination. But thunder clouds began to accumulate as discussion of Proposal B started. Mr. Porter had resolved to end the opium scourge. "Only by doing that," said he, "can we put sunshine and happiness into millions of homes where misery and squalor exist." Several minutes were filled with uproarious applause...
...matter of material values; it is the waste of spiritual forces which appals him: the sort of spiritual squalor which apparently has America so malignantly in its grip?dwarfing constructive endeavor, substituting pride of possession for pride of achievement...
Alexander Woollcott: "A filling performance of a brutally honest play that trudges doggedly through the squalor of life...