Word: gutter
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...room mansion had been vacant for 20 years. The door was locked when he got there. Moss and mildew flourished on the paneled walls. Water seeping from a blocked gutter had rotted the floors. Fungus grew on ancient banisters. Ivy, snaking through broken windowpanes, writhed in green profusion. Thousands of dead bees littered every corner. Lady Dunbar, erstwhile tidy Maryland housewife, held up a picture frame from which the canvas had long since rotted. "A portrait," she remarked wryly, peering through it, "of the wife of the present baronet...
There were occupational hazards, though. Every once in a while when he was bent over absorbed in research, sleepy undergraduates staggering up Linden Street for a ten o'clock class would knock him into the gutter. The undergraduates always apologized, and said they were terribly sorry, but there were only a few inches of sidewalk left that weren't taken up by the garbage cans, and they couldn't be expected to walk in the streets, could they? Smushwick always shrugged. Once he had a really narrow escape. The Cambridge Board of Health said that, henceforth, all the cans were...
Rolled Sheet. The first pre-packaged rolls of sheet metal for do-it-yourself householders were put on sale by Illinois Zinc Co. Made of a nonrusting zinc and copper alloy, the sheet metal can be used for roof and gutter repairs, etc. Price: $1 for a 12-by 30-in. roll...
...show, Old Dada-Daddy Marcel Duchamp had hung some of Dada's best humor and bitterest protest. There was a carved wooden head festooned with watchworks, metric rule and alligator wallet, a sickly pink portrait of a man with blotched face and four combs for hair, a gutter collage of torn ticket stubs, discarded buttons, hairpins and old newspapers. A phonograph beeped out Dada sounds, a metronome with a staring eye pasted to the blade ticked away methodically, and every visitor had to pass Marcel Duchamp's own contribution to the show: a porcelain urinal over the doorway...
...deterioration of the popular press in England is a shocking phenomenon of modern journalism ... I think the phrase 'gutter press' could have been invented for the modern English tabloid The British . . . took the American tabloid and they lowered their sights. They de-improved it. It is something that has to be seen to be believed ... The curious thing is that, when an Englishman imitates an American tabloid, he is five times worse than anything an American would tolerate...