squalor
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In 1953, “Esmé” was reprinted in Salinger’s “Nine Stories,” a collection whose U.K. edition was titled “For Esmé—With Love and Squalor: And Other Stories.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2016
Mick Squalor said he had been singing along to the band while at the toilet in The Steamboat in Ipswich and realised how good it sounded.
From BBC • Feb. 18, 2014
Jesse's relationships with this trio bring to mind two great stories about literature and learning, Lionel Trilling's Of This Time, of That Place and JD Salinger's For Esme – with Love and Squalor.
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2012
Sitcomish Squalor and Dysfunction The new play “Oliver Parker!” at the Cherry Lane Theater might qualify as offensive — certainly it strives mightily for that dubious laurel — if it were not so patently artificial.
From New York Times • May 20, 2010
Squalor, misery, ruin and vile stucco, with a sprinkling of half-desperate humanity,—those are the elements of the modern picture,—that is what the 'great development' of modern Rome brought forth and left behind it.
From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)
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