Word: cuspidores
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There was always a cuspidor planted on his library rug, and he could make it chime like a bell. Ladies covered their ears at his "hells" and "damns," but everybody agreed he was a stout old character. He was Speaker of the House of Representatives and his full name was John Joseph Gurney Cannon, but Americans called him "Uncle...
Just about everybody on the public payroll pitched in, from the municipal cuspidor cleaners to the foreman of vacuum cleaners at the county courthouse. Women were exempted, apparently because the Hague machine never gave anything but small jobs with niggardly salaries to women; policemen below the rank of detective were assessed a flat $60 instead of a percentage of their...
...Europeans were given ample evidence that the U.S. Congressman is a man who 1) smokes cigars and seems to be searching subconsciously for a cuspidor, 2) is a ferociously accurate judge of whisky, but is incredibly naive about the countries he visits, and 3) emits a regular flow of outrageous quotes aimed at the voter back home...
...loud. There were strike-idled coal miners and old men who shave only once every three days and carry canes. Klansmen posed for pictures smiling broadly, friend-ly-like. Inside the courtroom, mild old Judge Robert J. Wheeler fingered his speckled white mustache. Occasionally he spat delicately into his cuspidor...
...stream-of-consciousness writing. Baxter Bernstein not only recalls the horde of little streamlets that bubbled up in the master's wake but proves once & for all that though the great original is still alive and glowing, its imitators are only fit to be dropped thhhh into the cuspidor" [TIME, July...