Word: spats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opera stars seemed personal friends-or foes-of everyone in town. Once, when Contralto Maria Olszewska spat upon Maria Jeritza during a performance of Wagner's Die Walküre, partisans were close to rioting in cafes all over Vienna. Even while the war-gutted opera house was being slowly rebuilt during the past decade, Vienna managed to put on 600 opera performances a year in other houses (the Met stages about 200, including tours). And the Vienna telephone company offers each day's opera bill, with recorded excerpts...
...look of shocked bewilderment on his face as he walked up to a group of his Colored friends waiting on the sidewalk for their turn before the board. But the coffee-colored youth did not get a chance to speak. "Get away from us, you filthy Kaffir [black]," spat one of his former chums, as the group walked hastily away. They knew that being seen with him might be evidence enough to reclassify them as African "natives...
...just Eden, but a' whole class-including the ten Etonians in Eden's Cabinet. At Scots-toun, near Glasgow, Nye singled out the Cecils, that historic family whose present member, Lord Salisbury is one of Eden's closest advisers. "Salisbury is a Cecil," Bevan almost spat the name at his audience. "The Cecils have been in the government of England since the Poor Law was enacted. They built country houses in the best parts of England, and they built workhouses in the worst parts. Youngsters who have come of age since the war have no idea what...
...time of prosperity. We must be a party of principle and program-and that we have not been. We cannot do it by this form of political cannibalism in which we spend our time chewing each other up." Having chewed, amidst uproarious applause, he stalked over to Butler and spat: "You stuck your nose in something that was none of your business." Chairman Butler flushed with anger. "I didn't realize I had said anything that would offend anyone," he snapped later...
...Vietnamese have escaped through chinks in the new Viet Minh monolith, leaving the antiseptic tyranny of Uncle Ho for the South's cha otic freedom. The articulate among these huddles of refugees complain that the Viet Minh has destroyed the customs and friendlinesses of the past, and has spat upon family ties and religion...