Word: filth
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...amazed that you would permit such filth as that which appears under the caption "Ethiopian Icon" on p. 15 of the Jan. 6 issue of TIME. It would seem that an editor should feel under some obligation to observe the ordinary standards of decency in selecting material to be presented to his readers. Since your magazine apparently does not consider the moral welfare of its readers, we are compelled in the interests of more than 20,000 high school students in our city to remove the above mentioned number from our high school libraries...
...having a nervous breakdown!" famed Floyd Gibbons was all but unrecognizable when last photographed (see cut) except for his trademark, the patch across one blind eye. Others were arriving in Manhattan, London and Paris heart-shocked by the altitude; nausea-shocked by the fleas, flies and filth; sleepless from malaria and dysentery; jittering and at such low ebb that their journalistic employers sent them to secluded rest homes. On the subject of altitude able United Press European News Manager Webb Miller vividly said: "You would lie down, thoroughly fatigued, your heart would palpitate and you would get scared, thinking...
...Mohawk and Morro Castle, warned her against the Dixie. A North Bergen, N. J. man passed the time writing his experiences for the New York Times. Sewage and sea water had by this time risen knee-deep in the staterooms. When it had spread its stench and filth into the public rooms, a band of women got down on their knees, tried to scrub the floors. Passenger hero turned out to be Henry Treger. National Broadcasting Co. engineer, who climbed the stack to help re-rig the radio antenna. "I never expected to get down safely," he recalled...
...done his work. Within a few short weeks he has changed vivacious "Lampy" into reading matter fit for the suckling babe, has transformed the flirtatious courtesan into the demure virgin. Thus we lament the decease of a spirit which filled our hearts with glee and our minds with filth. Death to the censors! Ormond L. Trimble...
...reach Europe as a human epidemic until the 15th Century. In the five subsequent centuries. Professor Zinsser calculates that typhus has caused more death and misery than cholera, bubonic plague, leprosy, tuberculosis, or any other human pestilence. Therefore he rates this mass disease as Plague No. 1, born in filth and spread by vermin...