Word: filth
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...heavyweight champion, has given his name to a Manhattan restaurant and bar, a hotel in Miami, a chocolate bar, a whiskey. Last week he gave it to Jack Dempsey's Sports Magazine. Wrote Editor Dempsey: "Hello, folks! Well, here it is. ... There never will be any dirt or filth in the pages of this magazine. Sports are essentially healthy and clean...
When Philadelphia's hard-bitten Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson was prevented from spending $70,000,000 for a nitration plant, he angrily called the city's drinking water "filtered filth!" But when Dr. Haven Emerson, lanky, zealous Manhattan authority on public health, swooped into Philadelphia last week and whooped: "The water supply here is worse than that of any other large city in the country," then Mayor Wilson, just out of sickbed, roared: "Sniping...
...issue of Vogue: "Mr. Andrew's ball at the El Morocco brought out all the dirty Kikes in town." The sketch, bordering an article on cafe society, included several simulated newspaper pages. A tiny sheet headed Daily Mirror, which carries Mr. Winchell's column, was labeled Broadway Filth. In another small space Artist Beaton had written: "Cholly Asks Why? . . . Is Mrs. Selznik such a social wow. . . . Why is Mrs. Goldwyn such a wow. . . . Why is Mrs. Louis B. Mayer...
...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...
...share in the $1,000,000 the operetta reputedly earned. The theatre finally claimed him in 1004, first Boston's Castle Square, then Manhattan's ambitious, repertory New Theatre. He built the Little and Booth Theatres, headed a producers' committee to purge the stage of filth, helped rescue Gilbert and Sullivan operetta from the hands of school children and restore it to its place as adult entertainment...