Word: cuspidores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Washington office describing the mannerisms of U.S. legislators: how Carter Glass pounds the table when he gets riled, how Louisiana's Ellender whips off his glasses before he speaks, how Oregon's McNary shoots his cuffs, how Cotton Ed Smith is a dead shot at a cuspidor...
...subject was appetizing and Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg made the most of it. Did his fellow Senators know, he inquired, that the U.S. Army was going to ask for bids on 1,000 rubber cuspidor mats-which would use up a ton and a half of badly needed rubber? Well, sir, he'd learned precisely that from one of his constituents. His adviser had proposed that "a little drilling of the officers in straight spitting might be a good suggestion...
...unhappy War Department pointed out that the cuspidor mats were to be used in hospitals, had been ordered as a routine refill by the San Antonio Quartermaster Depot. They were to be made of reclaimed rubber in combination with alloys, would not require more than 750 lb. even of reclaimed material. Furthermore, said the War Department, the San Antonio Depot had no authority to award contracts, had simply asked for bids. Somebody in Washington (the Department wasn't quite sure who) would certainly have vetoed any contract calling for rubber. So there...
...spur the U. S. air corps' recruiting drive Charlie McCarthy turned up with Edgar Bergen at March Field, Calif., offered a combination peashooter-bombsight "guaranteed to hit a cuspidor at 30 feet," was sworn in as honorary master sergeant by Colonel Benjamin G. Weir, base commander. Viewing 21 flying fortresses lined up in his honor, Charlie suggested: "Try putting a hostess in each...
...gathered at No. 1 Wall Street, Manhattan, made Mrs. Alden secretary and assistant treasurer. She is the first woman ever elected to a high executive position in a major U. S. railroad. Last week, as she moved into her new office, her first official act was to have the cuspidor moved...