Word: spit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when, following a rule of The Literary Digest, then his sponsor, that no material already aired be included in his script, he failed to report the first broadcast of Pope Pius XI. Promptly he was swamped with messages accusing him of being anti-Catholic. Wrote a Mrs. McCaffery: "I spit on you, you Orangeman." Next day Thomas related a gentle human-interest story about how Monsignor (now Archbishop) Spellman of New York made a big impression on his folks in Massachusetts when he was chosen to translate the Pope's speech...
...down by tea served hot in buckets right on the blazing job. In the Express, owned by Aircraft Production Minister Baron Beaverbrook, slick Columnist John MacAdam shamefacedly wrote of the Auxiliary Fire Service that before the Blitzkrieg began "we used to smile a little at them sometimes. 'The spit and polish firemen,' some people called them and there were others who used to talk about 'three pounds ten a week for playing darts.' The A. F. S. took it all with a shrug-in much the same way as they now take the chorus of inner...
...Catholic. Like many a well-educated Catholic, he uses the instruments not of faith but of logic, thereby finds psychoanalysis illogical in its premises, highly rationalized in their proofs. That one such volume should destroy psychoanalysis is most improbable. That laymen should feel qualified either to swallow or spit out its arguments is only too possible. But that such a volume may aid in the reduction-to-scale of a science too liable to theological elephantiasis is most devoutly to be hoped...
...Wykeham (1373), decreed that its boys should talk Latin. Winchester finds it necessary to supply new boys with a glossary of its slang. Some Wykehamisms: abs (absent), chiz (cheat), cud (pretty, from couth, opposite of uncouth), infra-dig (scornful-to sport infra-dig duck, to look scornful), glope (spit), swink (sweat), thoke (idle in bed), ziph (a kind of pig Latin), plant (sock someone with a football...
...they have been afraid to say so, for fear of losing their standing. Instead, they have resorted to "educating" the American people to the real "issues" in Europe. They are hypocrites, and their writings are the purest and most vicious propaganda. In one mood, they hiss and spit their scorn of isolationism; in another they cower before it, paralyzed by a fear that keeps them from voicing their innermost feelings. But the President, as the leader of not only the United States, but the Western Hemisphere, is not the man to give way to such tactics...