Word: spat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prince, kicked, scratched, poked, spat upon...
Deputy Prince Joachim Murat, a descendant of one Joachim Murat, King of Naples and Napoleon's "playmate," was set upon by "hoodlums" who obviously did not like him. The Prince was kicked, scratched, poked, spat upon and hurled from the platform from which he was speaking at Souillac, Communist stronghold, home of the notorious Louis Malvy...
...York, and the hardly less sordid assistance of Illi- nois, would be a double triumph. Even to lose the Presidency by a small margin in such circumstances would be a moral victory that Mr. Wilson could always remember with pride. The cash-register patriotism of New York has been spat upon by a virile American West that is keeping the faith of the fathers...
Rowdyism. At several points rowdyism assumed serious proportions. In Glasgow, H. J. Tennant, the Liberal candidate, was forced to seek police protection, while Miss Violet Robertson, Conservative for the St. Roller constituency, was spat upon, "kicked in the shin" and "treated insultingly" by a crowd of hooligans. In London H. Hogbin, Liberal candidate for Battersea, was forced to cancel all his meetings because he could never make himself heard. Even the pleas of his opponent for fair play failed to help matters. Lord Curzon was another victim of the rowdies. There were many other incidents of "howling down" meetings...
Rowdies who spat upon, kicked a woman...