Word: spats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world is his plaything. Certainly his attitude toward creeds and laws was that of a versatile bad boy playing with what toys he could misuse. His book, Revelations of an International Spy (McBride, 1916), was described by an amused U. S. diplomatist as "a spitball of wastepaper and spleen spat at his former European employers"; others professed to take seriously his arraignment of Sir Edward Grey as the archvillain of the World...
...Little Hsu" cleared his throat and spat contemptuously in the general direction of the travelers. For a decade he has rejoiced at being known as "the worst hated and most utterly unscrupulous man in China." The travelers drew back and whispered lower...
Doorman Johnson smiled his ivory smile. One of his fists moved forward a few inches. Mr. Cohen fell to the ground, spat out two teeth, screamed for a policeman...
Other Fascist deputies then closed in, and according to despatches "dragged Maffi to the door, by the beard . . . flung him out . . . threw out three other Communists . . . hissed, spat and uttered catcalls...
...Barcelona, one Sebastian Anaro Anzarez, "a former picador," entered a hotel, ordered cold-turtle soup. The order was delayed. When the tureen at last appeared, Sebastian, tired of waiting, snatched it and "drained half its contents at a gulp." Then his eyes bulged, his face contorted. Nearly choking, he spat out a live turtle the size of a bright new peseta...