Word: spat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Peabody, Mass., dug out from under a collapsed floor with a broken collarbone. Edward McCrossin. 48, was offered a drink of whiskey. Spat he: "Sir. I am a Prohibitionist, dead or alive...
...tapes try woolens, Aristide Maillol has been very particular about his materials. He used to complain violently about every type of drawing paper on the market. Several years ago he chewed a big gob of drawing paper while working on a clay model and finally spat it out on the smooth tile floor. Some hours later he picked it up, discovered that the underside of his paper quid had acquired a beautiful fine grain. Faithful Nephew Caspar Maillol undertook to manufacture drawing paper for his uncle and friends by a like process. It is expensive, not on the public market...
...Pazaza may be an excellent spat salesman but it is very apparent he knows nothing at all about wars. An American veteran was an American soldier. Some of these Americans that Mr. Gerzzora refers to have walked right up and into barrages. Anybody who can do that has "guts," be he French, British, Italian, German or American...
...Roanoke would say- he who spat at the Yazoos of his day this venomed indictment, whose sting still lasts after more than a century: "The spirit that guides them [the Yazoos of 1806]," he said, "considers the many as made only for the few-the spirit that is never so true to itself as when false to the nation." Would that our great Yahoo hero, Andrew Jackson, sat in Washington today to say as he said to a European debtor in 1831: "Pay or else. . . ." Andrew collected. He extinguished the public debt. America prospered. Ross M. BARRETT...
Keystone man in the Machado regime was Capt. Miguel Calvo, chief of Cuba's Secret Police, foiler of numberless plots against the President. As Captain Calvo rode down the broad Malecon with two Havana policemen one day last week, a submachine gun suddenly began to spat-spat. The two policemen were instantly killed. Captain Calvo was rushed to a hos pital, died with 36 slugs in his body. The submachine gunners escaped unidentified...