Word: spat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, a gathering of British friends of Leftist Spain suddenly espied in their midst last week a golden-haired girl wearing a swastika pin. "Throw her in the Serpentine!" shouted enraged friends, spat in the young woman's face, kicked her shins, threw rocks after her as she ran out of Hyde Park. The young woman proved to be the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, a daughter of Lord Redesdale, who is pro-German, and she has worn her swastika ever since it was given her by Adolf Hitler. The Hon. Unity's 19-year-old brother...
...choose between you and a king," spat back the Premier with frigid courtesy, "I should want some time for reflection...
...procession a disdained Buick. At the proper spot each pauses, ejects a human cartridge or so, and moves off while the full feed belt behind fidgets for its turn. There is no hidden sheen here. No sheen in the clothing, at any rate. They are impeccable--the soft white spat, glove, nosegay--the starchy white shirt, collar, handkerchief--the black topper and morning dress coat--the sparkling shoes, still black on the soles--the pin-stripe trousers breaking at the proper inch above the instep--the soft, luxuriant Ascot--and concealed somewhere in all this the wallet, the very full...
...this not been couched in the heated terms of an "ultimatum" by Poland and "yielding" by Lithuania, it would have appeared what it obviously was: a thawing out last week of a spat between two countries which has been permitted to remain frozen for nearly 18 years...
...throughout Austria stalwart Nazis, mostly Austrians, were busy stripping to the waist workmen known for their Communist or Socialist views, giving them the cat-o'-nine-tails. In the Jewish quarter of Vienna boys were flogged, the eyes of old men watered as their beards were jerked. Nazis spat in the faces of Jewesses, and almost everyone whether Jew or Aryan was soon wearing a swastika. Later Jews were forbidden to wear them. The arrest by Nazi pagans of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer was incessantly rumored, but his Palace ran up the Nazi flag, and His Eminence exclaimed: "Thank...