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...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...
...hours later the patrolman's attention was arrested by a crimson puddle of blood that spread its darkening stain over the flagstones at No. 346 West 41st St. A hundred feet from the corner the Negro lay in the gutter with two bullet holes in his body. Patrolman Meehan glanced casually at the black, distorted face, and then stepped to the telephone to inform his captain that the person known to the police as Louis Phal, and to the public as Battling Siki, once light- heavyweight champion of the world, had been shot to death...
Still will flutter to the gutter...