Word: unwashedness
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MY BROTHER'S KEEPER, by Marcia Davenport (457 pp.; Scribner; $3.95) proves mostly that a writer with nothing much to say need never despair: the tabloids are full of stories. This one is about two old bachelor brothers who were found dead in a house full of junk (just...
Elizabeth Richmond is an unassuming, 22-year-old clerk-typist who trots dutifully to her museum job every morning and dutifully back to her brandy-swigging guardian, Aunt Morgen, every night. She has the looks and manners of a mouse, the brains of a flea and a fondness for cocoa...
The cops broke into the gas-filled Manhattan basement with a sense of dreary familiarity-spectators at a sad and sordid drama which had been enacted a thousand times before in a thousand other cheap rooms. There was the battered stove with its jets silently exhaling death. There were the...
Unwashed Democracy. Strong's mind was not brilliant. He wrote bigoted gibes at almost every racial group, but with muscular directness he chronicled the feverish, unpredictable growth of New York. He reported political meetings, flicking a patrician's flinty adjective at the "unwashed democracy." He graphically described the...
The Cambridge Water Department crew worked until 5 p.m. before stopping the leak, but the unwashed got their water back by 3:15 p.m. The Water Department is not sure what caused the leak.