Word: filth
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From the Moron, Degenerate, Dope-head and all other filth that comes from the lowest of the Human societies, to the Blue Blooded societies...
...flophouse run by a receiver of stolen goods, Kostylev (Vladimir Sokoloff) and his wife Vassilissa (Suzy Prim), Pepel's mistress. Other muttering, miasmal inmates are: an alcoholic actor, a streetwalker addicted to reading sentimental novels aloud, and a genuine bankrupt baron who abandons his palace to live in filth. Threatened by the police, Vassilissa attempts to force her pretty little sister Natacha (Junie Astor) to marry a pudgy, petty official. In a resulting brawl old Kostylev is killed and Pepel goes to jail. A new ending, wildly out of key, but approved in script form by Gorki before...
...edge of a desolate section of fog-ridden moors, the grey, ancient English prison of Bleakmore was almost impregnable, had harbored so many generations of convicts that it smelled "of the primal basic filth of old humanity, of the things forgotten when the oldest cities began." Although fogs sometimes came down while convicts were working in the quarries and on the moors (blotting out the prison road in an hour), convicts who escaped under cover of it were easily caught because all outlets were guarded. When a young convict asked, "What's the chances for a stoppo [jailbreak] ?" oldtimers...
Well aware of the filth, crime and disease spawned in New York City's sprawling slums, Manhattan's square-headed Robert Ferdinand Wagner proposed a bill two years ago seeking to eliminate such surroundings. The embryonic law died in the Senate Education and Labor Committee. Last year Senator Wagner's seasoned measure passed the Senate with little debate but Congress adjourned before the House could consider...
...campaign was fired in March 1906, in an editorial headed "Frankness With Children." Said he: "The tenderest parent sometimes grows tired of the eager eyes and hungry brain of his child. The poor little traveler is bewildered by the strange world in which he suddenly finds himself. . . . For absolute filth, go and listen to the talks of the boys and girls during recess in our schools. Some of these little ones belong to refined Christian families. Their parents would shrink in horror at the thought of unveiling the sacred mysteries of sex and birth to their innocent minds...