Word: spat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trick is to look like a "white spat boy," for diplomacy is a white spat game; but to act with inflexible firmness and more than sufficient tact. Tactfully Minister Whitehouse gave the No. 3 president an "out," explained that for him to remain in office would be contrary to "The Treaty of 1923." What the treaty.is all about was comparatively immaterial.* The No. 3 president, who had not scrupled to ignore the Guatemalan constitution, was presumably not squeamish about scraps of paper. He took 24 hours to think over the impression made on him by Minister Whitehouse, then resigned...
...President's sentiments. Hence it was with a loose-worded ferocity seldom exhibited by the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee that Senator Norris retorted to Mr. Wood by accusing President, Hoover of personally approving the "conspiracy." "Cowardly . . . underhanded . . . disreputable ..." were some of the epithets the ghosty Nebraskan spat out in the direction of the White House. "I was fighting for the Republican party and its upbuilding and puri- fication when Mr. Hoover himself was a resident and voter of Great Britain. . . . When he came to this country from Great Britain he became a Democrat. . . . He remained a Democrat...
...Government was able to capture some of them without opposition. The rest, however, put up a terrific battle. For an hour machine guns rattled, rifles spat and finally steel met steel in hand to hand fighting...
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...West Side apartment-house hideout by the front door. Pup-Pup! stuttered a waiting machinegun. He, wild-eyed, slithered into an adjacent courtyard. Puppety-Up-Pup! another gun stammered. Blood oozed; Joe Aiello crumpled down with 57 holes and more than a pound of lead in him. Death had spat from two rented rooms, cunningly chosen for a crossfire. Hundreds of cigaret-butts in each room testified that the gunners had waited long for their prey. Because the trap resembled one which slew Earl ("Hymie") Weiss, another North Side Big Shot, and because that trap was credited to Capone, police...