Word: gutterally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seventy-three, that he knows women as well as he knows horses? ... It would be a long list, almost as long as the list of his real estate properties, and it would be a list of fair women flung away, whose names he delighted to drag in the gutter, to besmirch and defame, whenever one of them crossed his path after he had discarded her. . . . The State's Attorney and the Grand Jury of Cook County, Ill., are delving into a sink of depravity, baring the scandals of Chicago's segregated district 18 years ago, to find, as the Prosecutor...
Countess Laszlo Szechenyi (née Gladys Vanderbilt): " In late Summer, at Newport, I lost a pearl necklace valued at $30,000. Last week newspapers told how a Scandinavian maid found my necklace in the gutter, returned it, received $100 reward. The pearls were given to me when I married Count Szechenyi, who is now Hungarian Minister at Washington...
...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...