Word: gutter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find all sorts of interesting things if you keep your eyes open. That's what people say, but eagle-eyed as I am, I never once found anything interesting until Monday afternoon, When I noticed a piece of a certain Housemaster's' stationery in a gutter. It was note admonishing an undergraduate for parking a car in a reserved space. "I have been put to a good deal of trouble," the note began, "and some expense, arrange for this reserved parking space. It is for the convenience of my wife, my guests, and myself...
...what it was like to see: "At first the myriad of detail demanded so much attention I had to try not to look at things. There was, and still is, no ugliness in things that can be seen. Even a wad of paper, wet and soggy in a dirty gutter, contains design and color that are not unpleasant to look upon. All things are beautiful . . . and I have found life is beautiful, too . . . Thanks to my good vision, we face a future of independent security here on our Pennsylvania dairy farm...
...parents to hand on to children clear-cut standards of what is right and what is wrong in the relations of the sexes . . . The air is blue with insistent voices . . . analyzing behavior as 'normal' which in the past we were accustomed to associate with the gutter...
Both contestants freely admitted the faults of their candidates. Cherington termed his defense of Dewey "a bleak task indeed," while Beer admitted that President Truman had "committed himself right into the gutter" on such issues as civil rights...
...added, "Conditions were worse than we expected, and repairs will involve ripping out the old gutter...