Word: spit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...price of his loans to one Bassanio, is not one for starched shirts and diamond dignity. The demeanor of flawless respectability which has so often served able Actor Arliss well now plays him false. He finds it difficult to add writhing to his words as they eject ". . . and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine." He finds it difficult to scream "My daughter, my ducat...
...what is expressed by a very familiar phrase, "cram up for the quiz and forget it." They read up the chapters assigned the night before the quiz. There is no time for taking notes. They go to the section meeting remembering words, phrases, and paragraphs-mere print-and spit out all those which seem to have any application to the questions, with a sensation of relief at being rid of them. And, of course, they forget that mite because they accumulated only words and phrases which were not organized into any definite ideas on the subject. When the final examination...
...bands played the quick sad songs they had marched to almost 30 years ago-"After the Ball," "Just as the Sun Went Down," "Goodbye Dolly Gray." On the sidewalks girls cheered and threw flowers just as other girls had once thrown flowers to soldiers who, instead of waving, had spit tobacco juice on the pavement. The Maine. Almost 30 years ago, in theatres, in parks, in fairgrounds a thousand brass bands played "Dixie" and a song that started, "Spain, Spain, Spain, you ought to be ashamed. . . ." People sang the words and waved their caps; the whole country was talking about...
...super-dreadnoughts of the U. S. Navy really spit 18-and 20-inch shells as reported in TIME, April 25, p. 8, col. 3 ? I have been out of touch with the Navy since the War but am of the opinion that 16-inch guns are the largest yet installed on our ships. However, more power to the Navy, and yourselves...
...years ago the Atlantic Monthly asked the question, "How can a man get off a frictionless plane?" It was a Harvard professor who supplied the only satisfactory answer when he replied: "The only way to get off to the north is to spit to the south...