Word: gutteral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Roosevelt II the Colonel really hit his stride. Nor was he concerned when he was caught in outright manufacture of anti-Roosevelt shockers. A Tribune story in 1936 showed a ragpicker in a gutter scooping up Roosevelt buttons which Party workers presumably could not persuade anybody to wear. The Colonel did not apologize when the Chicago Times ran a full-page spread in which the Tribune's ragpicker re-enacted the button scene which he claimed a Tribune reporter paid him 25? to fake. Nor did the Colonel try to collect a $5,000 reward by the Times...
...Dwyer became successively a coal passer, longshoreman, hod carrier, plasterer's helper, policeman, attorney, magistrate, juvenile-delinquency expert, county judge, district attorney. Steadily the Democratic machine had brought him along. His culminating feat: smashing Brooklyn's grubby ring of gutter killers, dubbed "Murder...
Also on the bill is the latest of Dr. Kildare's cases, no better or any different from all the others, except that Lew Ayres does his operating in the gutter this time...
...Affaires in Washington, denied she would refuse to return to Germany with him, called contrary rumors "insane . . . nonsense." Said she: "I may have jokingly said I wanted another season of foxhunting here in America"; but she denied ever remarking that the Nazis came from, and would return to, the gutter. Meantime in Manhattan American-born Cecil White, wife of Gaetano Vecchiotti, Italian Consul General, looked forward to expulsion with pleasure, singsonged: "I'm glad to go, I'm glad to go; we haven't been treated very well here, you know...
From a Manhattan gutter 230 sparkling diamonds and rubies caught the eye of an honest laborer, who turned the brooch over to police. It had been dropped by longtime Metropolitan Opera Soprano Frances Alda...