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Word: spitted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Spit-&-Image...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1937 | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...play's design, intensifies its mood, sharpens its implications. And Producer Goldwyn was smart enough to import the Geddes-Kingsley gang en masse, the whole dirty, ruthless, gay, heroic, nasty, sadistic crew of them. In their transplanted metropolitan hell, Tommy (Billy Halop), Dippy (Huntz Hall), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Gorcey), T. B. (Gabriel Dell) and Milty (Bernard Punsly) again speak in the thickened explosives of New Yorkese, roast mickeys (potatoes) in street fires, harass the brass-buttoned doorman of the neighborhood's swank apartment house, defy a flatfoot (policeman), beat the dickens out of a rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 6, 1937 | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...took ex-Representative Dorgan three hours to spit out his wrath against all objectors to the Teachers' Oath Law in general, and against Harvard professors and President Conant in particular, at the State House hearing yesterday. According to Dorgan's census there are 105 communists at college here, well above the Princeton low of 64 and well below the Brooklyn high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IGNORANCE CHARGES HURLED AT CONANT IN OATH DISPUTE | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

...valued parts of the anatomy to fracture and contusion, subject to the whim, not of some human opponent, as in the great game of football, but of Newton's three laws. There is a savage pleasure in kicking the opposing tackle in the face, but one can only metaphorically spit in the eye of the law of gravity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...James Ellison) rides to relieve a Federal garrison beleaguered by the Indians. Hickok's girl, Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur), can cut a man's hat off at 40 ft. with a mule-skinner's rawhide but cannot quite bear to watch Wild Bill roasted on a spit by the Cheyennes. Her disclosure under pressure of the trail taken by Cody's detail causes Cody fall into an Indian ambush, Wild Bill to renounce his love Preview audiences wrote the studio protesting as unlikely the scene in which Cody and a handful of soldiers broke by volley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 28, 1936 | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

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