ellauri192.html on line 908: The authors did not allow themselves to be fooled for one minute. They saw slums near the main streets, they saw poverty next to luxury, dissatisfaction with life, everywhere breaking out. – New Masses
ellauri222.html on line 611: Padilla is a classmate of Augie’s. Born in the slums of Mexico, he is a genius of mathematical physics. He steals books for money and gets Augie involved in that, too.
xxx/ellauri027.html on line 441: The Industrial Revolution brought progress and liberation from mindless toil but contributed to the creation of slums, despicable work conditions and pollution.
xxx/ellauri091.html on line 778: As a young student she was first attracted to the study of literature, but she was soon to take an interest in the work to which she was to devote all her energies in the period preceding the First World War: the improvement of conditions of life through social reform. The necessity of such work was first brought home to her when she became acquainted with the poverty and squalor of the slums in America’s big cities. She collaborated in the founding of a social center in Boston and undertook other practical work as well, becoming a member of the American Federation of Labor and helping to establish the Women’s Trade Union League of America.
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 471: Side, in the slums where his classic novel Call It Sleep is set. In 1914, the
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 479: briefly lived in Brooklyn, and then on the Lower East Side, in the slums where his
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