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...gates when they were discovered by a little Italian corporal who saw the British boots under the faked uniforms. The gates swung shut. Soldiers swarmed out of the guardhouse. The comandante himself popped to his office window, screamed as though cut to the heart, bustled into the courtyard. "Swine, filth," he yelled at the P.W.s. "seducers, whoremongers, robbers! ... I who have been so noble,, so kind, so Christian, so hundred per cent generous with you filthy bastards. . . . And this is my reward. . . . How many got away...
...veranda of his house near the Himalayan foothills and handed his wife, Pyari, some women's dresses to hem. Said Pyari: "Isn't it enough that you should make your house a byword . . . must [you] bring your whore's clothes here? . . . Take back your filth!" Gopal Singh slapped her face. Screamed Pyari: "Why don't you shoot me? . . ." Half an hour later, Pyari was dead. Said Gopal's father: "We must say she died of cholera." Said Gopal: "She must be burned at once. ... It must be too late for a post-mortem." That evening...
Despite its loud gloom, its indecent crowding, its filth and uriniferous odors, New York City's swift, nickel-fare, 244-mile municipal subway system is the envy of other U.S. cities. This week, as every week, New Yorkers wondered...
...July, dysentery spread through Berlin. The disease was carried by flies that swarmed in the wreckage, and struck an undernourished people: 705 died of it. In August came typhoid fever, which also flourishes on flies and filth. In the week of Aug. 18 there were 538 typhoid cases (up from 43 in July) and 50 deaths. (So far, no U.S. soldier has caught typhoid.) Last week the U.S. Army took on the immense job of immunizing all 900,000 civilians in its zone against typhoid and paratyphoid (similar to typhoid, but milder). In doing so, the U.S. hoped that...
Nichols further ventured that Duren should paint in a spirit which regards manure not as horrible filth but as a farmer's God-given instrument. Countered Duren: "I refer to [manure] but seldom. ... I regard it as neither horrific nor as beautiful but merely as unimportant detail. Obviously Mr. Nichols finds it appealing...