Word: spat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Olszewska's fame had preceded her. Many had heard her in Europe and brought home glowing tales of the big, impressive woman whose mighty voice could make Wagner almost as thrilling as the orchestra. More remembered her as the one who spat at Maria Jeritza three summers ago in Vienna. They recalled dimly the picture the press had given them then of an enraged Brünhilde storming across the stage, hurling invectives at two of her colleagues chatting and chortling as they awaited their cues in the wings; of that same vicious Valkyrie going at them finally, gathering a maximum...
With brazen clatter a telegraph machine spat news of speed and Death, last week, into the dignified Roman sanctum of Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre. The Count publishes L'Osservatore Romano, the sole daily newsorgan permitted to speak for the Vatican...
Speed! The wires spat that, near Milan, on the Grand Prix Course, famed Racing Driver Antonio Materassi is roaring to victory at 120 miles per hour. Death! The car swerves and plunges into the grandstand. Materassi is killed. So are 21 spectators. Cables flash to the U. S. that among the 26 injured was one Mrs. Dorothy Doherty, Bostonian...
...practice rounds, Francis Ouimet, George Von Elm, Harrison Johnston, Jess Sweetser stood on the eighth tee in the rain, waited for the honor man to tee up. Thunder blasted, lightning spat at a fence a few yards away from the mound, shocked slightly the foursome, most annoyed Sweetser, who had only to make two pars...
...Other muskets spat and flashed. The mob recoiled in panic, leaving a sprawl of bodies (five starkly stiff) in the street...