Mrs. Mirvan says we are not to walk in [St. James's] Park again next Sunday ... because there is better company in Kensington Gard...ens; but really, if you had seen how every body was dressed, you would not think that possible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Failing to divide its social chromosomes and split up into new cells, each bearing some portion of the original inheritance, the c...ity continues to grow inorganically, indeed cancerously, by a continuous breaking down of old tissues, and an overgrowth of formless new tissue. Here the city has absorbed villages and little towns, reducing them to place names, like Manhattanville and Harlem in New York; there it has, more happily, left the organs of local government and the vestiges of an independent life, even assisted their revival, as in Chelsea and Kensington in London; but it has nevertheless enveloped those areas in its physical organization and built up the open land that once served to ensure their identity and integrity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,... And she is dying piecemeal of a sort of emotional anemia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are told that every American boy has the chance of being president. I tell you that these little boys in the iron cages would s...ell their chance any day for good square meals and a chance to play.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »