Word: spats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ball snapped like a bullet from glove to glove. With practiced ease, players spat, gripped bats and, stepping 'to the plate, sent the pitchers' swiftest offerings in long parabolas to the spaces of verdure behind the outfielders. The agile basemen were "On their toes to , make stops, pickups, putouts and what not. Moundsmen were regaining their speed, sending across curves, fadeaways, fork-balls that baffled the sturdiest batter. Well might loud eurekas issue from the lips of the fence-warmers. The teams, after they had played some practice games against one another, entrained for the North...
...Katherine Puree by name, had entered an Automat, procured a sandwich, eaten the first half of it with impunity. As she began to chew the second half, she felt something in her mouth that seemed to be moving, independent of the action of her teeth and tongue. She screamed, spat vehemently, alarming many nearby customers of the Horn & Hardart Co. When the object she ejected passed her lips it bit her, causing her lip to bleed. A curious insect -or reptile -about a quarter of an inch long, badly mangled by Miss Puree's teeth, lay upon the floor...
...guns barked their medley of jubilation. The Lokal Anziger printed a letter which clearly revealed the painful fact that ex-Chancellor Bauer had accepted money from the Barmats. The Socialist Party forced Bauer to resign from the Reichstag?but nothing it could do could temper the cracking shrapnel that spat its hate on every side. Dr. Anton Hofle, ex-Minister of Ports, resigned temporarily from the Reichstag and his trial was rumored; for, although he was not accused of profiting financially, it remained a fact that the Barmat transactions were approved by him. Other revelations implicating Socialists were threatened...
...Daeschner, when he was so gracefully ushered in by Mr. J. Butler Wright, had exclaimed "Pooh!" and spat upon the carpet; if the President, in rejoinder, had ejaculated, "Bah!" and blown his nose with rage, the public would have been none the wiser...
...Daeschner, when he was so gracefully ushered in by Mr. J. Butler Wright, had exclaimed "Pooh!" and spat upon the carpet; if the President, in rejoinder, had ejaculated, "Bah!" and blown his nose with rage, the public would have been none the wiser...