Word: guttering
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...Satyricon is as impure and guileful as anything in literature, and Petronius was mocking Roman bluenoses when he pretended to deny it. But the great gaiety of the work, and the sharpness with which Petronius satirizes esthetes, pedants, bad poets, the nouveau riche and the rapacious poor, lift this gutter odyssey well above the merely pornographic. The fragment that remains of the original huge manuscript is a mixture of prose, poetry and puns, fustian rhetoric and sweaty argot...
...took frustrated, gutter-fighter Halleck 25 years of backing losers to finally assume top spot in the Republican House by barely sneaking into it, just as he barely sneaked (not "squeaked") by the last election...
MANY a favorite of yesteryear drops quietly from sight. More exciting are the rare instances of painters whom time mellows and improves. Such a one was Philadelphia Painter Arthur Carles, whose reputation for a while seemed to gutter and go out. Now, with a chance to review his lifetime's production at an exhibition of paintings at Manhattan's Graham galleries, critics have been shocked into recognizing Carles as one of the unsung ancestors of today's abstract painting...
...year-olds in Braithwaite's class, most of them white, were hard and gutter-wise: girls who jiggled provocatively in too-tight sweaters, boys who slouched about in stovepipe jeans. Braithwaite's story of eventual victory over their ignorance-and their casually vicious race bigotry-is warmly told in To Sir, with Love (The Bodley Head; 13s. 6d.). By last week his publishers had printed 10,000 copies, and ex-Teacher Braithwaite (he is now a children's officer for the London social welfare department) was a.moderate literary sensation...
...daily Sun reporter charged that he had walked up to Ava at a local pub and got a drink of champagne in his face, and the glass with it. Said he: "As I stood there dripping amid shattered glass, she gave me her views on the press in gutter language running mostly to fundamental four-letter words." Newsmen reported that she expressed the same views in roughly the same terms about the city of Melbourne to a nonplused officer of the aircraft carrier Melbourne, lent to the moviemakers by the Australian navy...