Word: guttering
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...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...
...folk lost in the depths of the big city. The characters are a grifter, a cafe entertainer, a drunken Pulitzer Prize playwright, and a thief, all thrown together by accident. Doug Fairbanks, Jr. as the ex-bellhop sucker-plucker and Rita Hayworth as the girl who graduated from the gutter give convincing performances in the romantic leads. And Thomas Mitchell does as fine a job with his role of the universal friend in need as Eddie Dowling did in the almost identical role in "Time of Your Life." The plot revolves around an attempt to exploit the exploiters by winning...