Word: spat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peerers at Ambassador Culburtson would have seen a very flower among U. S. diplomats, not a shirt-sleever, not a spat-wearing expatriate, but a comfortable man of kindly shrewdness, a man from Emporia who walked unruffled through Rumanian intrigue, won confidence, kept respect. Minister Culburtson was in Bucharest when the late Prime Minister Jon Bratiano heard from trustworthy sources of the effect produced upon U. S. public opinion by the tour of Queen Marie, and despatched the secret cablegram which resulted in Her Majesty's precipitant return...
Other mobs had meanwhile stormed the Italian consulates in Zagreb, Spalato, Ragusa and other Jugoslavian cities. Repeatedly portraits of Benito Mussolini were publicly burned, and Italian tricolors were torn to tatters, spat upon, befouled...
...efficient slot machine takes the money, makes the change, prints, dates, issues the ticket; all in exactly one second. Unscrupulous voyagers who feed it counterfeit coins are certain of detection. Electricity tests the. piece for conductivity as it drops in. If it is found wanting, it is angrily spat forth...
...motor was whirled. Once it spat and died, again it sputtered and coughed, finally it roared action. A man picked up the butt of von Huenefeld's discarded cigar for a souvenir...
...strangling in the same condition as was Mrs. Lambert's. Firemen had helped save that first child by means of a pulmotor. Patrolman Di Lorenzo remembered how the pulmotor worked. He placed his mouth to that of the child and sucked. A plug of mucous came loose; he spat it away. He blew into her throat, sucked; blew, sucked-until she could breathe by herself and live...