Word: spats
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little-publicized nephew of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, went on a beer-drinking bout, returned home, had a spat with his bride of less than a year, told her he was "going to disappear." After spending the night in Long Island hotel, where employes reported he had arrived in a boisterous state, moody Andrew Whitfield drove to Roosevelt Field, climbed into the cockpit of his small, silver Taylor-Cub monoplane, told attendants he was off to Brentwood, 20-odd miles away. Flyer Whitfield then nosed his plane into a mild easterly wind, disappeared from sight. Next afternoon an eight-State search...
...Hyde Park, a gathering of British friends of Leftist Spain suddenly espied in their midst last week a golden-haired girl wearing a swastika pin. "Throw her in the Serpentine!" shouted enraged friends, spat in the young woman's face, kicked her shins, threw rocks after her as she ran out of Hyde Park. The young woman proved to be the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, a daughter of Lord Redesdale, who is pro-German, and she has worn her swastika ever since it was given her by Adolf Hitler. The Hon. Unity's 19-year-old brother...
...choose between you and a king," spat back the Premier with frigid courtesy, "I should want some time for reflection...
...procession a disdained Buick. At the proper spot each pauses, ejects a human cartridge or so, and moves off while the full feed belt behind fidgets for its turn. There is no hidden sheen here. No sheen in the clothing, at any rate. They are impeccable--the soft white spat, glove, nosegay--the starchy white shirt, collar, handkerchief--the black topper and morning dress coat--the sparkling shoes, still black on the soles--the pin-stripe trousers breaking at the proper inch above the instep--the soft, luxuriant Ascot--and concealed somewhere in all this the wallet, the very full...
...this not been couched in the heated terms of an "ultimatum" by Poland and "yielding" by Lithuania, it would have appeared what it obviously was: a thawing out last week of a spat between two countries which has been permitted to remain frozen for nearly 18 years...