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...throughout Austria stalwart Nazis, mostly Austrians, were busy stripping to the waist workmen known for their Communist or Socialist views, giving them the cat-o'-nine-tails. In the Jewish quarter of Vienna boys were flogged, the eyes of old men watered as their beards were jerked. Nazis spat in the faces of Jewesses, and almost everyone whether Jew or Aryan was soon wearing a swastika. Later Jews were forbidden to wear them. The arrest by Nazi pagans of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer was incessantly rumored, but his Palace ran up the Nazi flag, and His Eminence exclaimed: "Thank...
...last week's Rochester Congress by bus, took charge of various receptions, joined the rehearsals under Rochester Dirigent Hubert Stiens. The orchestra contained 50 zithers gathered from all over the U. S., three violins, one 'cello, seven mandolins, eight guitars, one flute, one bass viol. A spat nearly spoiled a rehearsal when Soloist Maximillian Veith, a lithographic demonstrator with a Hitler mustache, became piqued at Dirigent Stiens, commanded the orchestra: "When I am in your city I play as I wish. Now you must follow me. If you do not like it, take your instruments and scram...
...result of their recent nocturnal spat in his hallway (TIME, Oct. 4), Secretary Carlotta Monti announced she would sue Funnyman W, C. Fields for $200,000. Said Secretary Monti's lawyer: "She will accuse Fields of breaking a walking stick over her head and belaboring her with a rubber hammer." Snorted Funnyman Fields: "I've been sued before-and by experts...
Before the Vagabond left the cockpit to return home; a Nantucketer who had been reckoning; the lines of his boat, shuffled his feet and spat over the wharf as though he wanted to step down and talk. The Vagabond hailed him to come aboard. The old salt accepted, and soon they were swapping tales such as only fishermen and sailors can. As the man, his face a grey stubble and his eyes reflecting a quiet pride, forgot the Cambridge puppy squatted before him and became absorbed in his own, other world, there unrolled a story...
...having supernatural potency, and, of course, intimately associated with one's being. In the folk-mythology of both hemispheres, saliva is often associated with conception. It is reported that among the Gypsies a woman who wishes to have a child will drink water into which her husband has spat. "Spit an' image" is, in all probability, to be traced back to a mystical notion of this sort. LESLIE A. WHITE Dept. of Anthropology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich...