Which preposition to use with slum
On her way home from the factory Mary passed through the slums of the city.
The "Alley" of its unfortunate name is the slum in Kansas City where Dave, stranded on his way westward, met the girl to whom the laws of fiction were inevitably to join him.
Unfortunately he has not the Oriental gift of transforming slums into palaces in a single night, but hopes to produce a similar effect by treating the local authorities with a judicious mixture of subsidies and ginger.
From how many high places will she turn away, yet delight to waste herself upon a slum like this!
In the meantime they were working back and forth, in their progress along the East River, from the slums to the better residence districts.
For me, its easy width was an avenue through which nameless slums across the river sent creeping messages of depression, and I always regarded it as Winter's main entrance into Londonfog, slush, gloom trooped down it every November, waving their forbidding banners till March came to rout them.
My guide spoke a word to him, and then the door opened and I found myself in a narrow back slum with the canal beyond.
Describe life in the slums before (a) a rural audience, (b) charitable persons, (c) rich people in the cities who know little of conditions among the poor.
Because this is better than the slums for the emerging class, and because they like the gregariousness, is no argument for continuing the type up into the range of the $2000 group.
It is courageous of Mr. HOWARD to place on record his apparent belief that a total absence of the three "R's" and any number of "h's" cannot debar a strong-minded daughter of the slums from the higher rungs of the histrionic ladder.