Word: spit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smoke Clouds. Near Stuttgart, Germany, guns spit up bombs; the bombs burst in air and from them spread wide layers of smoke clouds. Flyers in planes could not see terrain or buildings below the smoke. The device seemed a good protection to the Germans against an inimical air attack...
...with a knife fell upon the dummy's throat and gashed it open. He then splattered a red fluid (mercurochrome) around the wound. The Birming-hamians howled for joy. Some fired revolver shots into the "corpse." Others kicked it, spit at it. Others got a rope, noosed it, dragged it around the hall for a hanging...
...VIOLATIONS OF THE VOLSTEAD ACT AND OTHER CRIMES. (Of course the other crimes such as-burglary-arson-murder-THEFT-etc., etc. are nothing at all in the eyes of the ultras-as compared to the possession of a "pint tickler of yaller corn" "that would make a jack rabbit spit in a bulldog's face...
...like watching some horrible reptile die-something that writhed and spit slime though dead a thousand times...
...personality the Sardinian is grave and dignified, chivalrous and hospitable. Unfortunately he is nearly always poor and generally illiterate. Luxury to him means a tummy replete with porchettu, or sucking pig roasted upon a spit. Between piglets he subsists upon a diet featuring frue (sour milk) and a sweet fresh cheese. Hardy, he is apt not to notice fleas...