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Word: spit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Plymouth chugged a fleet of rattling, steaming motorbusses. Fifty blue-helmeted policemen tumbled out like oranges. Not one had a revolver. They took off their overcoats, they spit on their hands, they grasped their truncheons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Broad Arrows | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...affairs, view big business with distrust. But another Richard, the composer who almost runs off with the well-to-do hero's wife in Paris Bound (1927), is moved to remark: "I used to curse into my beard whenever I passed a house like this. I used to spit on the pavement whenever a decent-looking motorcar passed me. I don't any more because I've found two among you whom I know to be of absolutely first importance in all ways I value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Angel Like Lindbergh | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Bloody Laughter is frankly intended for theatregoers with strong stomachs. Its characters wrangle, shout, spit in each other's faces. It is loaded to the muzzle with propaganda. Praise is due Actor Schwartz, usually to be seen in Manhattan's Yiddish Art Theatre, for the articulate vitality with which he plays a part that could easily have been just noisy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...terrified when the Emperor sent a eunuch to me, saying that I had spit and cursed in his presence, and must acknowledge my guilt in writing. I sent back word apologizing and begging imperial forgiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Gold-Digging Justified | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

...eagle on the long ninth hole. Burke, playing ahead of Von Elm in the last round, finished with a steady 73 for a total of 292, took a shower and amused himself by standing naked in the middle of the locker room and playing pitch shots into a spit. toon, while waiting for Von Elm to finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Inverness | 7/13/1931 | See Source »

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