Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Making of this picture caused a spat between Messrs. Paul and Beebe. When Paramount paid Columnist Beebe $500 for "inventing" the title, Reporter Paul jealously announced that it was he who had done the inventing, threatened to sue. Unwilling, however, to give so much free publicity to Paramount, he decided not to sue, has since received no credit line, no money. The picture itself is likely to aggravate Mr. Paul's indignation. Cinemaddicts with imagination might find that he and his 80-year-old mother are rudely caricatured, along with other celebrities of Manhattan night life, including...
Soap Dodger Pendleton, leader of the Scatterfield gang, was the junkman's son, a blond, dirty, resourceful brat who spat tobacco juice in the ink wells. He devised ingenious persecutions for teachers' pets and snitches and for most grownups except old German Lew, who gave the gang beer, and old Charlie Heston, a drunken, ironic ex-astronomer who rhapsodized over ugly, muddy Scatterfield, which he called the Roman Empire...
They were spat upon, cuffed, nose-jerked, kicked and given black eyes. The atrocities stopped short of rape or firing squads...
...minds of their own, a paramount question has been: will non-New Deal Democrats attempt to unhorse Kentucky's plodding, obedient "Dear Alben" Barkley as Majority Leader? To do so would in effect amount to purging the Senate of Roosevelt leadership. Last week, in an otherwise unimportant newspaper spat between Montana's utterly independent Democrat Burton K. Wheeler and New Jersey's obedient Democrat William Smathers, came an answer. Declaring that there would be no attempted Barkley ouster, Mr. Wheeler said: "Why should there be? He leads only [Indiana's] Minton and [Washington's] Schwellenbach...
...last week, more than 40% of Germany's traveling salesmen, 110,000 out of 265,000, were Jews. Despite Nazi antiSemitism, many large German firms have preferred to retain Jewish salesmen because, although officially scorned and often individually spat upon, they have managed to outsell Aryan competitors, Last week the Government decided that after October 1 all traveling salesmen in Germany must be Aryans, decreed that the licenses of all Jewish sales representatives in the Reich, which expire this week, cannot be renewed. These licenses correspond to the labor permits issued by the Labor Front, which every employe, German...