In this slum block the houses were three deep in places, with scarcely the suggestion of a courtyard between them.
The slum took its name, as the park does now, from Mulberry Street, which on one side of it makes a deep and sudden bend.
You could hardly reply to such an one that you had just discovered the mistake as the result of a flare-up, caused by a slum doctor's giving twenty-five thousand dollars to buy an old hotel.
The slum doctor, having neglected Hen's injunction hitherto, now obeyed it, though with inattention to the processes.
Twenty-seven years old he was, a lame slumdoctor in a fire-new suit of Prince serge, lately bought cheap at a sale; but he had a face that people sometimes turned to look at in the street.
She, in her radiance, had met the slum doctor's eye with a shock of recognition; she looked at once away.
Carlisle seized the slum doctor's arm with a resolute little hand.
There stirred in her the memory of another night when she had similarly met the slum doctor in this room, between engagements with Hugo Canning.
After her proceeded the slum doctor: the hard marble betrayed the inequality of his footsteps.
She was a brilliantly successful girl, the chosen wife of the most shiningly eligible of men; and he was a lame slum doctor in a worn-out suit, beneath her notice as a man altogether.
Surely it was over something bigger than her "little views" that her story-book prince had locked arms with the lame slum doctor, curiously recognized by him as an adversary at sight.
You don't want to go exploring the slum districts, finding out how the other half lives.
For instance, the children of your neighbours are likely to be the playmates of your own children, and the children of degenerate parents in the slum district of your city will possibly be the fellow-citizen partners of your own family.
The slum ends and sides of our Christian cities and huge heathendom, jostle elbows in the likeness of their moral conditions.
A little fellow, of a very poor family, in theslum section of one of our large cities, was induced to attend a mission Sunday-school.
A kindergarten teacher opened a mission among the slum children of a very poor section of Chicago.
He is as available now in all His drawing power wherever men meet, in cityslum and savage wild, in college hall and business street, among the philosophical and cultured, and among the ignorant and untrained.
From near at hand came shrill voices of children chasing each other about--children playing at midnight between slum and gaol!
Needless to burden description with further detail; the slum was like any other slum; filth, rottenness, evil odours, possessed these dens of superfluous mankind and made them gruesome to the peering imagination.
He was in all respects an average slum boy in his ambitions and maturity, and if he seems extraordinary to the reader, the only explanation I can give is that low life develops its characters with unusual rapidity.
These are bits of slum philosophy that every child living in slums learns to appreciate sooner or later.
First, to enable the United States Housing Authority to undertake the immediate construction of about three hundred million dollars of additional slum clearance projects.
In addition, three hundred millions have been allocated to public works to be carried out by states, municipalities and private organizations, such as those undertaking slum clearance.
The Congress set up the United States Housing Authority to help finance large-scale slum clearance and provide low rent housing for the low income groups in our cities.
Perhaps the most terrible case that has drifted to this slum is the wife of a West-End physician, who became one of the lowest outcasts of the neighbourhood, and died in the workhouse.
They know well how they will have to tramp from slum to slum, losing work, and the difficulties which will beset them on this room-hunt.
I cannot resist telling a little story apropos of this domestic phase of slum life, which illustrates it rather forcibly.
For my purpose I will merely take the cases which have drifted to the slum lodging-house through drink.
Unless some scheme be devised which will check the wholesale destruction of slum neighbourhoods and the hasty displacement of those who cannot be accommodated elsewhere, the ultimate result must be pestilence or revolution.
This is no general assertion; it is a conclusion arrived at with a knowledge of the circumstances which first led many of the most notorious drunkards of a slum to contract their evil habits.
My purpose is to give the reader the complete story of a London slum and its inhabitants, that they may consider the popular question of the day in all its bearings.
There are not wanting those who believe that for the present generation of poor little can be done--I mean, of course, the poor who are sunk in the misery and degradation of slum life.
The story of one slum is the story of another, and all are unrelieved by the smallest patch of that colour which lends a charm to pictures of our poorest peasantry.
They might easily be multiplied and intensified did we pass from the slumto the workhouse, and then to the County Lunatic Asylum; but for my present purpose I have given the reader sufficient evidence already.
Hundreds of the people crowding into a slum have no business there at all.
Wherever the morning sky bends or the stars cluster is sanctuary enough," she said: "a slum at noonday is as holy for us as daisied fields; the Name of the Lord walks with us.
One can't possibly know what she may have imported from that slum in Bentinck street.
For the last four years he's been living in a slum off Whitechapel and the people there love him.
For in the slum they had never known or thought of anything better.
And one can see that he is no slum child," added Mrs. Evans.
He fought now, as slum ruffians will, but he was no match for the hard knuckles, steel muscles and lithe movements, of the Rocky Mountain maid who had grappled with wild animals and had won out.
The blind man came to take care of the paralytic, and here they now are in the little two-roomed slum cottage, smoking their pipes in the blackened kitchen, and declaring that they have never been so well off in their lives before.
Slum Kitty came forward very warily; sniffed at the meat, seized it, and fled like a little Tigress to eat her prize in peace.
She receives an unusually large portion, for Sam is wisely dividing the returns evenly; and Slum Kitty retreats with her 'daily' into shelter of the great building, to which she is regularly attached.
On the fifth day of ill luck the Slum Kitty ventured forth into the street, desperately bent on finding food.
Either the Yellow Cat was a very clever seeker, or else Slum Kitty did not hide very hard; but he discovered her among the boxes, and she made no attempt to get away, probably because she had witnessed the fight.
The liberty was weeks in coming, and, meanwhile, her affinity with the cook had developed as a bond to keep her; but one day after a summer of discontent a succession of things happened to stir anew the slum instinct of the royal prisoner.
What it contained was of little moment, but it was rich with a score of the most piquant and winsome of dock and slum smells.
She has an authentic pedigree nearly back to the Pharaohs, I hear"; and poor, dirty little Jap marvelled at his own cheek in sending his Slum Cat into such company.
This is how it came about that the Slum Cat found herself transferred from the show to a Fifth Avenue mansion.
This was stuck on the wall of his den, and under its influence he set about what seemed a cruel experiment with the Slum Cat.
The basket was lifted, and Slum Kitty had reached her country home.
They fled, the newcomer over the wall, Slum Kitty under the very box where she had been born.
One of three passing Chasseurs d'Afrique made a remark, the import of which was not lost on the Italian girl though the man spoke in Paris slum argot.
But young love and broken life are standing close together, And all a city slum is out to listen to the band.
It waited merely for the issue of that, to attack the slum in its other strongholds; and no sooner was the Bend gone than the rest surrendered, unconditionally.
There is nothing in the slumto warrant that faith save human nature as yet uncorrupted.
The Children's Aid Society will give you even better news of the boys rescued from the slum before it had branded them for its own.
We have seen what resources the slum has at its command.
I had just had a hand in marking five blocks of tenements for destruction to let in more light, and in driving the slum from two other strongholds.
The tragedies of death and life in the slum have met together.
The government "slum inquiry," of which I have spoken before, gave us some facts about him.
Time and education must solve that, like so many other problems which theslum has thrust upon us.
It appears, then, that Pietro has already "got on to" the American plan as the slum presented it to him, and has in good earnest become a problem.
I spoke of the instinct for the crowd in the tenement house boy as evidence that the slum had got its grip on him.
The way to fight theslum in the children's lives is with sunlight and flowers and play, which their child hearts crave, if their eyes have never seen them.
London's way with the tenant we adopted at last in New York with the slum landlord.
Then the slum will have lost its grip and the boss his job.
The reproduction is made easier in New York because he finds the material ready to hand in the worst of the slum tenements; but even where it is not he soon reduces what he does find to his own level, if allowed to follow his natural bent.
I am not willing even to admit it to be an unqualified advantage that our New York tenements have less of the slum look than those of older cities.
I recall the angry indignation of one of these absentee landlords, a worthy man who, living far away in the country, had inherited city property, when he saw the condition of hisslum tenements.
But for once they do not make the foreground in a slum picture from the American metropolis.
They were too dirty, too ragged, and too generally disreputable, too well hidden in their slum besides, to come into line with the Fresh Air summer boarders.
Conductor Slum is one of the most gentlemanly and efficient officers on the road; but he ain't trifled with, not much.
Whereupon Mr. Slum gently raised the youth, carried him forth, and set him down just outside the car to cool off.
Some say that it must be so; that the palace and the slum will for ever exist as the light and the shadow.
Naturally, the slum owner has to be compensated, though adequate compensation can hardly be put high enough.
To summarize, our slumfiction is quite defensible as aesthetic fiction; it is not defensible as spiritual fact.
The slum novelist is content with pointing out that to the eye of his particular class a pickaxe looks dirty and a pewter pot looks dirty.
The slum novelist gains his effects by describing the same grey mist as draping the dingy factory and the dingy tavern.
XIX Slum Novelists and the Slums Odd ideas are entertained in our time about the real nature of the doctrine of human fraternity.
The slum novelist gains his whole effect by the fact that some detail is strange to the reader; but that detail by the nature of the case cannot be strange in itself.
The evils of slum dwellings, whether in the shape of crowded and congested tenement-house districts or of the back-alley type, should never be permitted to grow up in Washington.
The slum exacts a heavy total of death from those who dwell therein; and this is the case not merely in the great crowded slums of high buildings in New York and Chicago, but in the alley slums of Washington.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
