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...entire Tokyo area of 5,000,000 people. He trotted to his doorstep with pails of water, set them outside to extinguish imaginary fires. Overhead he saw enemy planes in small formations zooming out of the mist, circling over parks and department store roofs where anti-aircraft guns spat upward. Suddenly the street blossomed with colored vapors, to indicate that poison gas and incendiary bombs had been dropped. He coughed in good earnest as a smoke screen smelling like burning rubber billowed down on him. Suddenly the street was streaked with cars, motorcycles and bicycles scudding past, carrying members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Tokyo's Games | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...Alfonso XIII!'" he cried, and spat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sacred Heart | 7/3/1933 | See Source »

Followed four hectic days of lobbying with France in a repulsing mood and Britain lukewarm to "The Governor." In a spat direct Candidate Bonnet said to Candidate Cox: "With Washington committed to devaluation we cannot have an American as monetary chairman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WORLD CONFERENCE: Disgust | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...Spat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

...Manhattan, a woman asked a Union News employe at the Pennsylvania Depot for information about a train. When he said he did not know, she spat in his face. He retaliated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 19, 1933 | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

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