Word: spatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actor Barton then spat right back in Potter's eye: "If you think you're so good and know just how this role of Jeeter should be played, why don't you come up and play it yourself? Try just three minutes of it if you don't want to go to the trouble of learning the entire part...
When the U. S. Army was a peacetime starveling, this Kilkenny cat-spat was just another bureaucratic brawl. With war abroad, rearmament aswing, and the Army in expensive expansion, the case of Woodring v. Johnson is now a stench in Washington. Last week Franklin Roosevelt took a look at the war in his War Department, let the public have a peek, and, after a year's scandalous delay seemed to be about to end it. Up to last week he actually did no more about it than he had since he first turned mild little Mr. Woodring...
...roughhouse brawl. They hit with the backs of their gloves, they hit below the belt, they hit after the bell. They spat blood, dripped blood, slobbered blood. It was the sort of fight a reputable U. S. citizen would be horrified to see in a waterfront saloon. Yet last week this primitive performance was billed as a top-notch heavyweight boxing match-staged in New York's Yankee Stadium to select a September challenger for the world's championship. And 18,000 presumably reputable U. S. citizens paid up to $11.50 a seat to watch...
...desperate straits") enter the U. S. this year and next. At hearings on the bill last week, Clarence E. Pickett of the American Friends Service Committee (Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite charity) drew the pitiable picture of Jewish children in Germany barred from schools and from playing in parks, spat upon in the streets, seldom able to see their hunted fathers...
...Washington, Alicia Butler, 17, vexed because Elvin Hanback, 18, did not speak to her for a week after a spat, picketed his home wearing a sign, "Elvin is Unfair to Alicia," Result: peaceful settlement...