Word: spats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forgotten was that citizens of all nations are transfigured with patriotism when they are abroad. His German fellow-passengers promptly declared war. German curses followed him down gangways; Germans bumped him, stepped on his toes, buttonholed him to shout red-faced abuse. German women, he later claimed, even spat on his wife. For five days the U. S. couple sat in their cabin, eating canned food. But the boorish German tourists, who might have ruined a lesser character with such treatment, had had the misfortune to catch a tartar...
Having thus conjured up the horrid vision of uncounted millions of Bolshevik Frenchmen and Bolshevik Russians leagued suddenly against the German Nazis, Realmleader Hitler with pistol-shot rapidity spat out what he was doing about all this. At that very moment last week German troops on his orders were dashing into the Demilitarized Rhineland. He ignored the illegality of this deed under the Treaty of Versailles and maintained that the Franco-Soviet Treaty had voided the Locarno Pact, hitherto the main bulwark of peace in Western Europe...
...been excommunicated by the Catholic Church, his corpse barred from burial in consecrated ground. The snout of Socialist Monnet's car incensed the mourning Royalists, three of whom, an insurance agent, a chauffeur and an architect, recognized Socialist Blum. The insurance agent shook his fist, the chauffeur spat on the glass window from which peered Leon Blum, and the architect set a glass-smashing example with his cane to other Royalists, who soon broke the car's lamps and windshield.* Someone tore off the rear license plate and dashed it through a window at M. Blum, the splintered...
...extended to 1941. RFC will receive the same interest as the banks (currently 4%), and while the bank loans are still on a demand basis, the RFC loans become payable if New York Central ever defaults. Furthermore, Mr. Vanderbilt tried to patch up his spat with the RFChairman by writing: "Please accept our sincere thanks for the co-operative spirit which you have evinced in reaching a final and permanent settlement...
...observant Varian Fry (Harvard '30), recently chosen to become editor of the Living Age and now in Europe on a "study tour" to fit him for the job and get him a Ph.D. from Columbia. Reported Living Age's Fry: "I saw one man brutally kicked and spat on as he lay on the side walk, a woman was bleeding, a dirty tear-stained face, a man whose head was covered with blood, hysterical women crying, men losing their temper at the police or the Storm Troopers being kicked or dragged off, women begging their men to keep...