Word: guttering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl from next door, stood in a line on the pavement to watch the black box carried out of the house, and stared round-eyed until the last carriage had turned the corner. Then, the next-to-largest black boy gave a tremendous leap from the curb into the gutter...
...Lucky Sam McCarver" is no minutely tortuous study. On the contrary, it moves tersely, racily. It is as essentially dramatic as it is biographical. Sam McCarver, who rose from the gutter and is on the make, is no character for a Ph. D. thesis...
...British colloquialism for gutter slang and plebeian profanity...
...struggling between two officers who held his arms while a third beat him over the head. His moving picture camera lay broken in the gutter at his feet...
Spattering flurries of lead flying through city streets in war-time would constitute an obvious menace to public health. But what if in peacetime city streets were filled with clouds of lead, not bullets, but fine powdery particles mixed in with the whirling gutter-dust, lead deposited by the exhaust-pipes of motors burning gasoline treated with tetraethyl lead (1:1,500) to eliminate motor "knocking"? Would that constitute a health menace...