Word: squalorous
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...although popularly considered desperate, is not nearly as parlous as Mr. Hearst would like us to believe. Their industries, the unemployment situation, their psychology, are all in better health than in America, and although Mr. Priestly may see fit to throw up his hands in holy horror at the squalor and degradation of the working classes, this is unmistakably the reaction of a gently nurtured being shuddering at its first contact with the icy waters of life. Had his "English Journey" been taken in the sweatshops of New York, or in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, or in the troubled...
...fell in love. All went swimmingly until the girl's father decided that Willoughby was no catch, did his level best to break up the affair. Willoughby dissipated his feelings, acquired a heartless mistress, got into debt, lived in squalor. When his true love finally came back to him both had much to forgive. But at last they were married, went to live on the ancestral farm Willoughby had inherited. For a few years they were happy; then Willoughby's blood began to tell. He grew more and more like his old uncle, sank deeper and deeper into...
...called "Little Orphan Otto." Editor Patterson, an enthusiastic expert on comics, changed Otto to Annie, started her on her way in the Tribune in August 1925. Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous. In due time Cartoonist Gray lifted her from squalor by letting her be adopted by a fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud to breakfast. Unspoilable Annie accepted her new fortune only as means...
...infamous "Lung Block" near Alfred Emanuel Smith's birthplace on the Lower East Side, 360 of the 386 evicted families promptly settled down in squalor within two blocks of their old homes. If whole areas are reclaimed, slumdwellers swarm into whole new areas, blighting them like locusts. Nevertheless, the PWA has earmarked $25,000,000 for Manhattan slum-clearance -a very small drop in a billion-dollar bucket. The State has authorized the setting up of a Municipal Housing Authority and 5,000 CWA workers in an exhaustive survey spent the winter slumming. No plans have yet been adopted...
Last week Philadelphians had poked under their proud noses the unwholesome fact that within 15 miles of City Hall was a suburban slum of almost medieval squalor. Its name was Sackville and it consisted of 60 rickety shacks squatting around a woolen mill. Sackville was settled 135 years ago and has stood still ever since. Its streets are unpaved. It has no running water, no sewers, no electricity. Almost every wage-earner among its 300 residents works in the mill. Last week the cry of "Anthrax!" prompted Rudolph H. Sack, owner of mill and town, to advise a general evacuation...