Word: spats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eyebrows upped last week at the tubby little Lord Chief Justice of England. Fresh from his recent public spat with the Lord High Chancellor (TIME, Dec. 24), Baron Hewart popped off to Totteridge, his home village in Hertfordshire. There the 65-year-old Lord Chief Justice of England abruptly married a buxom New Zealander three inches taller and 37 years younger than himself. His bride was Miss Jean Stewart, supervisor of a school for boys at Elstree, "England's Hollywood...
...tried and convicted while Paris papers ran page after page of feature articles, compared her to every famed murderess from Messalina to Beatrice Cenci. Though crowds' rioted against her outside the jail, though fellow prisoners spat hatefully at her, grey-haired President Lebrun was so moved by a last-minute plea for mercy from the mother whom she had tried to kill, that he commuted Violette Nozières' sentence last week to life imprisonment...
Shuddered at their "most painful debate in 50 years," an unprecedented spat between Lord Chief Justice of England and the Lord High Chancellor (see below...
Then followed an amazing scene. The angry crowd tramped off to assemble in front of Nazidom's holiest shrine, Adolf Hitler's original Brown House. While S. S. Troops stood undecidedly on guard, the Protestants spat at the bronze swastikas on either side of the door, yelled defiance at Bishop Müller and Adolf Hitler himself...
...Mason, Ohio, G. L. Gerard heard mountain fiddlers playing a tune from inside a rain spout on his barn. All over town tin roofs spat fire at the touch of a screwdriver, lights flashed on at 2 a. m. John La Mar, who sells melons, pointed an accusing finger at a steel tower which tapers 831 feet above the village, insisted: "I've watched clouds come rolling up until they reach that tower. Then they split in two and each part goes a different direction and we don't get a drop...