Word: spit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...condition of happy disorder. Shakespeare's plays had been murderously rewritten; King Lear had a happy ending and Macbeth had been refitted with low-comedy witches. While one actor rumbled through his speeches, another might nod to his friends in the audience, fix his buttons or ostentatiously spit on the stage. Audiences were noisy and quarrelsome, and privileged dandies would stand in the wings loudly gossiping. Occasionally, a drunken beau would stray on to the stage to kiss the leading lady...
...thank the benevolent mistress of an Evansville sporting house for furnishing them "a comfortable home." When their father was trying to get established in some new town, Dreiser's sisters would suddenly appear with young men of tainted reputation, parading down the streets in flashy finery, with spit curls, rouged cheeks, patent-leather shoes and broad-brimmed hats with ostrich plumes...
With three days practice to remove the effects of holiday indulgences, House League basketball teams will start play Friday for a short ten days before exams. This is a mere spit-in-the-bucket, token operation; the major part of the season always comes in February, after exams...
...into this hand, so unmistakably the limp and clammy hand of an effeminate curate, that little boys were to put theirs trustingly .. . This was the pietistic poseur-the very spit of every disgusting little 'teacher's pet' . . . that we were to take as the earthly evidence of what The Everlasting God is like...
...third summons arrived August 4. This time we went to Interior's Passport Section. As my protectors and I arrived at the office of a Captain Sabry, one of them said: 'I was spit on only once climbing the stairs ; I guess that's par for the course.' With a face-cracking smile the captain demanded my passport, flipped through it and said: 'Your residence visa has expired.' I pointed out that it had just been renewed. Said he : 'I am cancelling it. You will get a temporary visa. You will leave Egypt...