Word: vermin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Purges & Vermin. When it first opened its doors, the school seemed anything but permanent. Its vermin-ridden boys died off like flies, and the school itself barely escaped being closed down by the religious purges of Bloody Mary. Gradually, however, it gained a firmer footing. It won the right to license and control all the carts and carmen in London (retained until 1838); it became a favorite charity of various London guilds-the Skinners, the Dyers, the Innholders, the Tallow Chandlers. In 1673 Charles II founded the Royal Mathematical School in Christ's Hospital, to teach navigation and thus...
Girl Who Lost Everything, with Lloyds of London for $56,000 (covering most everything except "loss through vermin"), tossed the book to his secretary for typing, took off on a fishing trip...
...Angus Wilson, 39, does most of his digging in mildewing sections of the British middle class. In The Wrong Set, a batch of 13 craftsmanlike stories, he unearthed a nest of hypocrites, perverts and bores. In his first novel. Hemlock and After, he lifts a rock from more human vermin...
...first look at the people whose country he is fighting to save. "The filthiest pigs sty is a palace to the filthy houses in this dirty stinking City [Lisbon] ... In the middle of the day the sunny sides of the streets swarms with men and women picking the vermin from their bodies, and it is no uncommon sight to see two respectively [sic] dressed persons meet and do a friendly office for each other by picking a few crawlers from each others persons...
...basically, this form which Moravia brought to perfection in his first two books, is carried out in "Two Adolescents" where a dilerious boy imagines his room and bed crawling with filth and vermin. The reality of his early works is missing and the book becomes a more confusion of philosophies and a jumble of imageries...