Word: unwashedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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No thing of beauty according to modern standards, this car has been made to join the great unwashed army of Model "T" and "A Fords that have dominated the rural field so long. . . .
In other aspects of the lecture, too, Dr. Drury showed a tendency to lose contact with educational reality. He lauded the spending of money on elaborate school buildings, for example, without mention of the disproportion between these expenditures and the salaries of teachers. Similarly, political control of the public schools...
Tobacco Road (adapted by Jack Kirkland from Erskine Caldwell's novel; Anthony Brown, producer). Country squalor, never as bad as city squalor, lies over Robert Redington Sharpe's single stage set of a tenant farmer's shack, front yard and well in the Georgia tobacco country. Even...
Most delightful perhaps are the author's own contributions to the Globe and to Punch, his "Shilling Nonesence," and his literary recipes. Of the last the "Kippling Chutnee" might be quoted as an example: "This pickle has a pecular mordant quality which distinguishes it from all others. The chief ingredient...
If an "unsaved, unwashed world is dying," it is not for lack of preachers to minister to it. What shall they say ? Most, today, talk of Depression. Some endeavor to be cheery, smart, topical. Others are modern, "humanistic." Of the group who preach the real oldtime religion, none is more...