Word: guttering
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...walking along Quincy St. with one foot in the gutter and one on the curb stone. His hat was gray and somewhat battered. His coat was hanging loose and unbuttoned. He seemed to count his steps as he climbed and sank at each irregular stride...
...Austrian, Spanish, Cuban, Polish, French and Lithuanian embassies to move there, built a $300.000 palace which she attempted time after time to have made the official home of the Vice Presidents of the U. S. Vegetarian, ardent prohibitionist (she poured her husband's valuable cellar into the gutter immediately after his death) and anti- tobacconist, she caused one great sensation in 1931 when she publicly announced that her granddaughter, Mrs. Beatrice ("Trixie") Van Rensselaer Henderson Wholean was a foundling, secretly adopted to inherit a $600,000 trust fund...
Labor v. Majesty. Both His Majesty and His Majesty's National Government have been denounced in the House of Commons before, but never quite so abusively as last week by Glasgow Laborite John McGovern: "His Majesty's Government are crooks! The MacDonald Government are a Gutter Government! I say that the Royal Family are part of a parasitical class which is living on the common people of this country...
Working furiously against the approaching winter's cold, the Maintenance Department has almost completed the installation of a steam-heat system for the gutter of Wigglesworth Hall. A long copper tube, running the length of the drain, will abolish once and for all the danger of falling icicles...
...arms nor filled a bomb, nor have discovered arms nor had a bomb burst among them; who never have gone hungry in a general strike, nor have manned streetcars when the tracks are dynamited; who never have sought cover in a street trying to get their heads behind a gutter; who never have seen a woman shot in the head, in the breast or in the buttocks; who never have seen an old man with the top of his head off; who never have walked with their hands up; who have never shot a horse or seen hooves smash...