Word: spats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dugout, he replied with a gesture from the international sign language of obscenity which Boston sport-writers primly described as a "vulgar motion." Then, while waiting his turn at bat, Ted added one more gesture that even the most proper Bostonians were sure to grasp: he turned and spat disgustedly in the direction of the grandstand...
Last week, hardfisted, hardheaded old Fred Dumaine disdainfully spat on the hot fire stirred up under him at the New Haven's annual meeting. Stockholders were asked to approve the purchase of the outstanding 5% debenture bonds of the long-bankrupt Boston & Providence Railroad Corp. for $3,250,000. Who owned the debentures? None other than Chairman Dumaine and a few of his friends. They had bought the bonds for $2,256,800 in 1945 when Dumaine was just a New Haven director. Now they stood to clear a $993,200 profit on the deal...
Boxer-turned-Painter William Grant Sherry, 35, who last fall managed to patch up a loudly publicized spat with his cinemactress wife Bette Davis, 42> was in trouble again. Sherry had noisily broken up a party at the RKO studio, where the cast of The Story of a Divorce had just presented Actress Davis with a monstrous trophy for being "a good egg" (see cut). When he heard that his didoes had prompted highstrung Bette to resume divorce proceedings, the ex-pug unburdened himself to the press: "I'm tired of being pushed around. She was the breadwinner...
...similar occasion in 1947. At that moment the phone rang. It was the prefect of Milan, sternly reminding the mayor of the ban on public assemblies. When Greppi told the Red delegation, "No meeting is authorized," he was vilified as a "coward and traitor." As they left, the comrades spat angrily on the city hall stairs. They were equally frustrated when they tried to stir up a street march. Scelba's celere (jeep-riding riot squads) dispersed them...
...high time to end the wearisome game of cops & robbers in the Caribbean. The U.S., busy across the globe, was worried lest someone,' some day, might take advantage of a Caribbean quarrel, slip inside the hemisphere's back door, and use a l»cal spat in the American family to sow the seeds of Communism or fascism...