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When his audience stopped laughing, Churchill got grim again. Said he: "I hope to live to see the British democracy spit all this rubbish from their lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Comedy in Cardiff | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

...story into ready political capital. When readers of Le Monde started sending money and gifts to Duval, Humanité snorted: "The workers want no alms . . ." Later it added: "Plumber, take the gifts in money and kind that the grand bourgeois of Le Monde will throw you, then spit in the faces of those people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Hate, Hate, Hate! | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...spit-and-scratch school of society reporting in the nation's capital, two of the sharpest-clawed are Austine McDonnell Cassini Hearst of the Washington Times-Herald and Evelyn Peyton Gordon March of the Washington Daily News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: So They Say | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

Arcaro got Blue Hills going again but he finished second behind Pilaster. Said Arcaro: "Maybe I should have carried three peas in my mouth and spit one out each time we went by the stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Awful Truth | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...treason for helping Nazi agents who had been landed in the U.S. by U-boat. He lost in the lower courts, but won a reversal in the Supreme Court. The case cost him $800 and a lot of embarrassment. ("My friends wouldn't talk to me. I got spit on in the court.") By then he was making around $100,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Presence of Evil | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

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