Word: clutter
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...fishy-metallic kind of shine and grease beyond any power of cleaning"; the exact texture of the house's pine siding; the stinking clay yard, and "the chilly and small dust which is beneath porches"; a Mark Twainesque catalogue of livestock from cats and mules to the "clutter of obese, louse-tormented hens"; an inventory of the contents of every house, outhouse and room, including the smell of everything the author could (as he softly put it) "take odor...
...Expensive evacuees" began to clutter the hotels and were promptly dubbed "Gluebottoms, because they ... do nothing but sit." >-The child evacuees ("Vackies") from the London slums "all wrote home to their parents to say that this place had been bombed to bits and that most of the children here have been killed." Result: a rush of their panic-stricken parents to take them away...
Before long the tremendous clutter of their possessions filled half a dozen barns and spilled out all over the yard. They had to clear paths through their bedrooms to get to bed. Their kitchen became a small clearing amid dust-laden heaps of guns, bottles and spittoons. Still Henner and George Landis went on collecting...
...tasty hoofing by the Nicholas Brothers (colored), adequate vocalizing from blonde, lymphatic Alice Faye, are no match for the rustic mugging of an Oakie. Adept at using his nimble hands to take the action away from another cinemactor, he has a field day fiddling with the radio dials that clutter up The G.A.B...
Marcus found his Government, which had since passed the Sherman Act and no longer needs such "informers," an unwilling partner. (If the suit succeeded, it might inspire enough 1863-model lawsuits to clutter Federal court dockets until 1963.) To get Thurman Arnold's records, Marcus threatened to subpoena everybody in the Justice Department. But once the case went to trial, his luck picked up. On the witness stand he placed Robert Carrnack, manager of the contractors' association for twelve years. Carmack, himself a defendant, amazed his fellows by waiving his right to refuse to testify. Instead, for three...