Word: gutters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foregoing statements were not spoken from the gutter. Author Smith is a writer and amateur chemist; Helwig is a physician who has opened about 5,000 corpses: their cold-sober documentation runs to 47 pages of 100-proof bibliography. Simple laboratory curiosity prompted their research...
Having seen Mrs. William H. Corwith, of Rockville Centre, N. Y.. elected president of the American Legion Auxiliary, the Legionnaires threw the last empty beer can in the gutter, put away their rattles and went home...
Princeton freshmen donned their black dinks (skullcaps) and black ties, stepped into the gutter to let upperclassmen pass, went to the President's Reception to dance with 250 debutantes. University of Pennsylvania's freshmen dined together for the-first time in a new commons, afterwards-paraded to Benjamin Franklin's statue in front of Weightman Hall, then to a rally on Franklin Field. At Harvard the big news was that Cambridge University's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong Richards (The Meaning of Meaning) would set sail from England this week to be a visiting lecturer...
...party in his glittering new Chancellery, Adolf Hitler surprised diplomats by having a long, amiable talk with Russian Ambassador Alexei Fedorovich Mere-kalov. Hitler speaks no Russian, the Ambassador little German, but they understood each other better than anyone realized. Thereafter, the Goebbels Press & Radio ceased their gutter-word attacks on Joseph Stalin...
...found that during his absence a formidable black-uniformed army of 100,000 had come into being, that the Führer's affections had been shifted away from the 2,000,000 Storm Troops to the 55, that the Storm Troops were being relegated back to the gutter whence they had originally sprung. And although Leader Himmler was nominally Leader Roehm's subordinate, actually Heinrich Himmler took his orders direct from Adolf Hitler himself...