Word: spit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...compared with the products of the new. Turgenieff and Tchekhov are to be superseded by new authors; and they, in aiming at first-group ranking, need only take as a model this line from a recent Russian poet: "I feel a great desire to spit at the moon through the window...
During his recent illness Attorney General Daugherty gave up smoking and he does love his pipe. " I just wanted to see how much of a man I was," he told reporters. "In three weeks I'm going to be strong enough to spit...
...deliberately plans to "put one over" on the Faculty is not the clear thinker. He is still immature, still the small boy with a spit-ball mania. To him, his teacher is some far-off monster forcing down his throat--teaching--something that he is convinced will do him no good. His imagination makes his deceitfulness seem clever and in his cleverness he loses sight of the fact that the teacher is not the person who is there to teach but the person from whom he can learn. Failure to learn on the part of the student is no loss...
...line-up which last Saturday defeated Cornell by its superior hitting and errorless fielding. C. A. Harrison, Occ., will serve on the mound while R. A. Lancaster '20 will continue behind the bat. Harrison, who has not pitched since the game with Columbia on the Southern trip, has his spit-ball working in mid-season form now, and a week's practice has also served to bring his fielding up to the par of the rest of the infield...
...character in the wild passion of his despair. If Mr. Hampden over-emphasizes the emotion of this scene, he brings the tragedy of the situation before the audience, and in the final court scene the sympathy rests with the Jew, despised and hated, hating; scorned and spit upon, seeking revenge; a man broken by his own purpose; tricked by the Christian law. Mr. Hampden, especially, may be congratulated, as this is the first time that he has undertaken the role of Shylock...