Word: cuspidores
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...understand that within a comparatively short time the Pullman Co. has issued orders to omit the customary cuspidor from the berth section of their sleeping cars...
...alleged corruption attendant upon the famed Julian Petroleum case. Defense : the grand jury and district attorney are not The Court. Snorted Publisher Henry Birdice Richmond Briggs: "Next time, like enough, they will pretend that the bailiff who pounds the gavel and the scrubwoman who cleans out the judicial cuspidor is (sic) sacrosanct...
...Manhattan restaurant when a trio of gunmen entered. Mr. Garrett, small, confronted one of them, was shot three times (chest, shoulder, hip). At a detective, who queried him at the hospital about the possibly private motive for the shooting, Mr. Garrett is said to have shied a small porcelain cuspidor...
When Sherwood Anderson wandered over the Virginia hills from his Troutdale farm to the town of Marion, the townsfolk, inquisitive, turned out to see the Famous Author. But when he wandered over again and bought their printshop, lock, stock and cuspidor, with its two weekly papers, their reaction was not so simple. They were proud that the Author should choose their town and their county newspapers for his own. But they were ashamed that he had been famed for a "filthy mind" and dreaded lest he turn it indecently loose in their respectable little papers. They were pleased that...
...violation of the Prohibition Law, she said: "Thank God, that's over," and plastered "Texas Tommy," Herman Edson, the club manager, ''Mike" Edelstein, her lawyer, with smacking busses. Dry agents testified in the trial, that they found the court's injunction reposing sedately in a cuspidor...