Word: gutter
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...problems for the good, clean-living, republican American, and Cooper was not always sure-footed in his pathfinding amid the tangled family trees that snarled the moneyed moccasins of the American traveler. Surrounded by aristocrats, he complained touchily that his own family "did not exactly come out of the gutter," but he never accepted the obvious fact that he was invited out for his redskins and not for his blue blood...
...almost inevitably occur in great drama. The trouble is in the spirit in which these themes are treated. In any of its high periods, the drama implied a human condition capable of dignity and hence of tragedy. The non-hero of too many modern plays starts out in the gutter and ends up there; he is not tragic because he never rises and hence cannot fall...
TIME CORRESPONDENTS SEEM TO HAVE LEANED TOO HEAVILY ON REPORTS FROM THE GUTTER IN THEIR STORY ABOUT THE CROWN PRINCE MOHAMMED OF JORDAN. THE INTENSE SUBVERSIVE PROPAGANDA AND POLITICAL RIVALRIES IN THE AREA ARE TRYING IN VAIN TO FIND A BREAKTHROUGH TO SMEAR WITH FALSE RUMORS H. M. KING HUSSEIN AND HIS MOST BENEVOLENT AND SUCCESSFUL MONARCHY. THIS, I AM SORRY TO SAY, IS THE TRAP INTO WHICH YOUR REPORTERS HAVE BLINDLY FALLEN. I THINK IF THEY HAD INVESTIGATED MORE CAREFULLY THEY WOULD HAVE FOUND EMIR MOHAMMED IS AS RESPONSIBLE AND NO MORE ROWDY THAN AN AVERAGE 19-YEAR...
...first cartoon-a slashing assault on Nixon-set the style for the liberal Democrats' 1960 campaign (see cut). By an irony of timing, the caricature of Nixon as a monstrous male witch (in the past, Herblock has shown him as a sewer rat, a fanged beast and a gutter habitue) ran in the New York Post the same day that Nixon was receiving widespread praise elsewhere for his part in settling the steel strike...
...mandatory that the stench of the gutter must permeate most of today's viewable entertainment...