Word: gutterally
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...picture's theme is the rise of Na tional Socialism from the gutter to the June 1934 Blood Purge. The film is a sober attempt to screen history. It is forceful as propaganda, sharp as cartooning, interesting as journalism, sometimes exciting as cinema. But it is inadequate to its subject. In part this failure is due to the attempt to pack 16 of the most crowded, crucial, sinister years of modern German history into 101 minutes of lively cinema. In part it is due to the fact that Nazi characters and motives are simplified to the point of absurdity...
...trying to escape from escapism from escapism?" And, touching on a bit of British antiquity, he remarks: "Holborn Town Hall, where Cecil Rhodes was born, is a good example of Phibbs in his later manner. It is neo-Romanesque rather than post-Palladian, and the gargoyle above the gutter which runs along the sculleries is a very fine example of deep groining in the manner of Boutoflor, who also was responsible for the gadgets on the fagade of the old hand-laundry in Red Lion-square...
...have been an ardent student of music for almost 50 years, have had a particular passion for military bands ever since I was a kid and my experience in this field ranges from the gutter band of six dilapidated instrumentalists who used to collect pennies on summer evenings in my home town to the best military and concert bands of three continents...
...death caused friends to remember the days when, as he confessed in his autobiographical The Street I Know, he made a career of drink and an occupation out of borrowing money. Remembering the stir caused by his symposium, viper-tongued critics would say: "There goes American civilization-in the gutter...
...dismal winter's morning last week many a suburban Johannesburger twitched and turned in his last few minutes of troubled sleep, awoke alarmed at the unmistakable rhythm of hoarse-voiced jungle chanting. Early risers discovered the source: 20,000 black men, women & children, packed gutter to gutter on the Pretoria road, marching to wild, weird Bantu songs and war cries...