Word: spats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into Boston nowadays, the Harvard student descends into the bowels of the earth, drops a dime into a box, and enters a coffin-like case of steel. He is whirled over the Charles to Park Street Under in ten minutes, almost before he realizes it, to be spat up on the surface again via an escalator...
...against the door. . . . Tough, the door held. The soldiers demanded of Señor Rioseco that he come out and submit to arrest. They shouted that he had embezzled 3,000,000 pesos ($360,000). "Open the door in the name of the law! . . ." Within the bathroom the pistol spat lead. Six shots ripped through the door, made the soldiers quiet, wounded one. Then with his last shot, Señor Rioseco committed suicide, slumped down into the soapy water...
...hate to see so many good bits of this stuff cut up and flung around, but it looks like that was the only way we could ever have got them in here." He stopped, spat, chewed a diseased pipe and then added, "you see, even with the big doors they put in here, they forgot to figure that the doors in the old building was just as small as ever. Look at this, here...
Another time, workmen roped off a main London thoroughfare, spat on their palms, swung picks all morning, sat on the edge of the gaping asphalt to eat their lunches, continued their havoc until sundown, then returned to their colleges and usual clothes. Weeks of traffic congestion failed to reveal the hoax...
...each other in the face, in the belly, over the heart. One was Battling Nelson, lightweight champion of the world, bloody, ferocious, who wanted to win. The other was Ad Wolgast, the Cadillac wildcat, who won-after 40 rounds when Nelson, blind and helpless, lurched against the ropes and spat blood into the ringside seats. That was 17 years ago in San Francisco...