Word: gutter
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...kosher, hated her wasteful, Episcopalian daughter-in-law and was cordially hated back, and the life of Wallenstein, fils, was ground to pieces between the two women. Bertha did her best for that family, too, but tragedy overtook them?and she moved once more. Front Street again?saving a gutter-child from horror?scrubwoman's tasks ? discovery that the Bixbys, with her son, had moved to New York?the fantastic adventure of Willy?and Bertha's anonymous gift of a battered concertina to the son she never spoke to?a gift that put him on the path of music...
SEVENTH HEAVEN-Helen Menken creating for herself a lasting name as the gutter-girl of Paris who knew the infinite value of faith...
Organized labor is one of Mr. Gompers' ideals. " I can explain my position," he has said, " by a story. You see a boy whistling mightily as he approaches a yellow dog. He kicks the dog into the gutter and goes on whistling loudly. Then he comes to a bulldog. He looks at him but he doesn't touch him." Unorganized labor is the yellow dog; organized labor the bulldog...
...stand by while their children posture and grimace at the command of bull-throated directors would stand by anyway. In such a case the children would inhabit some top floor garret, subsist on cheese and warmed-over coffee. They would have the questionable advantage of consorting with other gutter children. They would grow up into third-rate mechanics? kitchen or gasoline, according...
...Deutscher with 20,000,000 marks to scatter in the gutter...