Word: spitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christi's luxurious Driscoll Hotel. She had built the place in a typically willful gesture, after dressing down the manager of another house where she didn't like the service, and promising him she would put up a hotel of her own, tall enough for her to spit...
General George S. Patton Jr., in Hamilton, Mass., represented the spit-&-polish school with a formal bow over the hand of a little girl who had presented him with a bouquet...
...Front, which is like a long letter home, sets forth some of Bill Mauldin's favorite gripes, which are the gripes of all infantrymen. Among them: revulsion at "spit & polish" in the field; envy of rear-echelon men who take over the towns after the infantrymen have captured them, occupy all the best spots and drink all the liquor; disdain for brass hats full of arrogance and stuffing...
General Joseph W. ("Vinegar Joe") Stilwell, 62, now at, a spit-&-polish job (Chief of the Army Ground Forces), was remembered in a more casually dressed post (U.S. commander in the CBI Theater). One G.I., not recognizing the General as he wandered about the front without his star-spangled insignia, commented: "Just look at that poor old man-some draft boards will do anything...
Victory in Europe did something to two untidy G.I.s that morale officers or spit-&-polish generals could never do. Last week Cartoonist Bill Mauldin's famed Willie and Joe washed their dirty faces. (Joe, on being scoured up, proved to look startlingly like button-nosed Mauldin himself...