Word: guttering
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...description is insipid. His family thought little of his love affairs -they called it "playing the ass in the bulrushes"-and he went on to have four wives. His family thought equally little of his desire to become a painter-they called it "playing the ass in the gutter" -and he went on to a career that has been something less than spectacular. Whether writing about his fun and games in the bulrushes or the gutter, Churchill never rises above the level of an amusingly gossipy chatterbox...
...reproduction. Harry Levin testifies in her favor, but Judge Lewis Goldberg finds the paper "obscene, indecent, and impure." "The author's descriptive powers are truly impressive, and she rises to great literary heights describing the life cycle of the creatures," Goldberg says. "And then she descends into the filthy gutter." Mary I. Bunting is fined $2,000, and President Pusey announces "with regret" that she will not teach a freshman seminar next year. "After all, the parents," he explains...
...defense of the book Hawkes said, "Cancer is the kind of gutter we want of," and claimed that it has an important influence on the modern impressionistic novel...
Naturally, every foresighted bowling alley offers free lessons for children. In today's family-styled alley, parents no longer worry about evil companions, and the only childhood trauma is the gutter ball and a bad hook. And chances are that Mommy can straighten out these problems faster than Daddy...
...which are described on two or more pages, and all of which are described "with precise detail and four-letter words," he said. "The author's descriptive powers one truly impressive, and he rises to great literary heights when he describes Paris. And suddenly he descends into the filthy gutter...