In 1914 the poet Carl Sandburg called Chicago "hog butcher for the world, tool maker, stacker of wheat," when the city's stockyards and factories were the economic engine – and human cesspool – of the entire midwest.
As one gravedigger eloquently declaimed: "I [have] emptied a cesspool, and the smell of it was rose-water compared with the smell of these graves".
For each public attorney in São Paulo's main criminal court, 2,500 cases are pending.With too many prisoners flowing in, and not enough flowing out, a cesspool festers in the middle.
The idea that Brussels is a cesspool of corruption has almost become an orthodoxy in the Netherlands.
But they also point to a new cosmopolitan cesspool, where a similar set of worries beset every strata of society, uniting and dividing it along new lines.
At the beginning of "A Study in Scarlet", he describes the city as "London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained".A century on, the attitudes expressed by Conan Doyle are self-evidently racist.
The Massachusetts Port Authority, which runs the airport, has been called "a cesspool of patronage".
Among those still rumoured to be at the front of the pack is Sallie Krawchek, a staggering possibility given her past role as Citigroup's chief cheerleader first as an analyst and later as chief financial officer while the firm grew into a financial cesspool.
Men of power A Brit in Brussels God be in my head One, two, three Truly, madly, deeply Murderous man Man of means Number Ten That great cesspool Main chance Soaking the poor ReprintsTHE voice of Indian fiction, judging by these two books, does not clamour.
The regime's propaganda arm crowed that a blow had been struck against the "ill-famed cesspool of injustice" [ie, America], and added that North Korea "highly estimates the righteous action taken by the "Guardians of Peace" [as the hackers styled themselves], though it is not aware of their residence".The hack was ferocious.
More than 2,000 years ago, the Empress Lü Zhi, a widow of the founding emperor of the Han dynasty and mother to his successor, ordered a rival concubine's to be dismembered alive and thrown into a cesspool.
