Word: verminous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later when Worker claimed, RED ARMY SWEEPS THROUGH SHATTERED MANNERHEIM LINE, the Times observed, FINNS REPORT FOR HURLED BACK ANEW ON KARELIAN FRONT. The Worker outdid itself, however, on December 5 when the first paragraph of its lead story referred to the ". . . . perfidious military clique, the Mannerheim-Cajander vermin . . . . . " and at the same time declared in a front-page editorial entitled, "The American Press--the Lowest Yet," that "the intelligence of the American people is being assaulted with a campaign of vile, hypocritical lies about the Soviet Union . . . the one great power where the people govern . . . the one great...
...trenches amid mud, vermin, bad food and the repeated shock of shells exploding all around, the 7O-year-old body of Neville Chamberlain would probably become a physical wreck in a few hours. But at the end of last week the British Prime Minister had been through 13 days of such labor, strain and anxiety as would have wrecked the constitution of many a man under 30. And Mr. Chamberlain emerged from it rather fatigued but quite unshaken. Fortunately the old do not need much sleep...
...Communists he reserved his most telling blows: "Was there ever a more awful spectacle in the whole history of the world than is unfolded by the agony of Russia . . . devoured by vermin, racked by pestilence, deprived of hope?" Russia Winston Churchill saw as not only "a wounded Russia, but a poisoned Russia, an infected Russia, a plague-bearing Russia, a Russia of armed hordes . . . and political doctrines which destroyed the health and soul of nations." Of Stalin's purge he wrote: "For all its horrors, a glittering light plays over the scenes and actors of the French Revolution...
...incompleted factory building which, had it been designed for human habitation, might have accommodated 500 persons . . . were quartered 9,000 refugees. . . . With no soap, no plumbing, no heat and excessive overcrowding, the place was foul. Women and children clotted and festered and hungered together. . . . Dirt, scabies and vermin exist to such an extent that typhus might become epidemic among them if it were to break...
...Shanghai veteran correspondents reported scenes of "filth, disease, hunger and madness" among the 1,000,000 Chinese refugees from battle areas. In a single theatre 14,000 have been living like vermin for weeks. Biological processes continued: among the 1,000,000 refugees a child was born every minute, there was a death every three minutes, and twelve mothers died in childbirth every hour...