Word: spitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gastronome. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Koontz, whose husband Jesse complained that she chewed snuff, spit it on the walls, and dumped garbage in his bed, won her divorce case. The grounds: he had threatened to chop her head off for putting the wrong milk in his gravy...
...messin' around faw? Whatta dey wanna scrape up da choon gum of fa da sidewalks faw? Maybe dey wanna have a Park Avenoo over here instead of Broadway. Leave it ta hell alone or it won't be Broadway no more. Put up a sign dat says spit out your choon gum folks, dis is old Broadway; spit er out. Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone...
...Spit & Polish. Variety-Philco's first Radio Hall of Fame had its points. Philco paid the costs, which were about a million and a half a year (for time and talent). Variety picked the talent. The first act, Jimmy Durante, was the best on the program. Growled The Durante, of Paul Whiteman's musicians: "What a band! What a band! I had an uncle once who could play like Whiteman. He played two instruments at the same time. With the left side of his mouth he played Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries. With the right side...
...Herald. Manager Watson runs El Paso's Mission Theater. "From the beginning," he writes, "the boys and some of the girls . . . decided they were going to run things as they pleased." Sometimes "when told not to roam the aisles, to quit talking, smoking, etc., they would sneer or spit in your face." Plenty of the young folks smoked marijuana. In the Mission's first three months, Manager Watson lost three customers by sudden death. The Mission, Mr. Watson observes, "is not a class movie...
...methodical. He made a fetish of writing things down in his clear, clipped style-with no metaphors, pseudo or otherwise. He made the A.E.F. drill. He insisted that infantrymen be taught to shoot, though the French clucked. The French depended on hand grenades. He was more than ever the spit-&-polish disciplinarian. To his officers "Black Jack" (the nickname he picked up when he was with the Negro loth) was God. To the enlisted men he was both God and devil. Some remembered him striding across a muddy field of France with his face hard and his uniform immaculate. Others...