Word: spats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that instant a man, stark naked, his body a mass of bruises, rushed down the aisle and up to the tribune. While shrieks resounded from the gallery, this man, one Jovan Risitch, coughed and spat blood upon the floor, then cried in a husky voice: "You, Maximovitch, did this to me! Last night your assassin Sokolovitch had me stripped as I am now and beat me himself because I-a poor government clerk-would not vote as you ordered...
...Bushy-whiskered rivermen were resentfully discussing that "outrageous sale of Louisiana to the United States." The boys disappeared in the bales piled high on the wharf. The suspicious guardsman peered about for a while, looked out over the muddy Mississippi and the waving grasses back in the impenetrable swamps, spat, returned to his post at the ale house, where he took up once more his duty with his cherie...
...Wailuku, Hawaii, one Peter Paaina caught a small fish, clapped it into his mouth to remove the hook. The fish squirmed, snuggled into his windpipe. Fisherman Paaina coughed, spat, smote himself upon the back, grew red of face . . . purple, choked, died...
...Cincinnati, one Howard Stribling, 20, of Columbus, Ohio, ate 62 oranges, spat out the seeds, broke his own Ohio record; won $20, a straw hat, a walking stick. His masked rival, one "Hoggie," ate 53, was satiated. Orange potentates rejoiced...
...Shady Rest" was a funny kind of roadhouse. It had dynamite in the cellar, machine guns in the windows. Men sat around, spat on the floor, fingered the triggers of their rifles. One day, last November, an airplane flew over and dropped some bombs which missed the house. Nobody was killed; it was only a minor disturbance. Last week "Shady Rest" trembled, burned, collapsed. It became a ruin overnight. And what is more, it contained four bodies, charred beyond recognition, full of ugly bullet holes...