Word: filth
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...halidom he would have a son if he had to marry and murder a half-dozen wives. Presented with the infant Elizabeth, later to be called great, he bellowed: "But Christ, this to me! To me! A daughter! I would prefer a son blind, deaf, crippled. . . . You make filth...
...incident is typical of Zola. For the 20 novels of his Rougon-Macquart series he investigated every form of humanity from gigolo to genius. His notebooks fattened with vicarious experiences. Nana's obscene smiles were for his pages, not for him. Called by the public Dr. Filth, the slimy Giant, he was in reality a clinical analyst of living. His private life was of astounding purity. His livelihood was labor, his distraction more labor...
Gourmands saw further possibilities in the impending war with an upland tribe whose three offences were loudly proclaimed as cannibalism, bodily filth, disgusting stupidity in keeping totem bullfrogs as mystic rulers. But before their war was well under weigh-the generals persisted in time-honored-and-outworn methods-Blettsworthy had rescued a beautiful damsel from suicide, loved her, and carried her to his secret cave...
Should such an appeal be made successfully, it would become impossible for U. S. atheists to expect justice at the hand of the law. It would be theoretically permissible to bait atheists in the streets, to revile or cast filth upon them, to slaughter them in shambles, all with impunity. Such a condition would not be welcomed by U. S. atheists; hence it became their interest to see that Mrs. Emma Marshall failed in her appeal. Charles Smith, President of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism, telegraphed to Attorney General Charles McCall of Alabama, asking permission to have...
...have taken too much veronal. At last the theatre was darkened, the crowd went home, the policemen made statements and the reporters wrote stories, in the case of the enraged reporter for the Los Angeles Examiner, on ". . . today's developments in the clash between purveyors of dramatic filth and the clean-minded majority of San Franciscans...