Word: spits
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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...
...success. Conchita Supervia succeeded in selling out the house with her Carmen, in convincing the audience that she was really Spanish, alluring and sure of her power over men, in recalling the Carmen of Spanish Maria Gay who used to tear an orange apart with her teeth and spit out the peels...
...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...
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...
...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...