Word: spitted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what all the money was spent for. The composer himself had explained his work: "If it is broad and sweeping, as the judges say it is, it comes from viewing the high plateaus of the Wasatch Range while tending sheep. . . . One passage sort of expresses the old-timers who spit tobacco into brass spittoons. . . ." But Trilogy had little picture painting about it: it was a well-knit if not wonderful symphony, with occasional ear-splitting eruptions of brass. Commented Detroit Critic Harvey Taylor: "Those 25 Gs could have fallen into much, much less able hands...
Therefore, our artists had (and have) to work almost exclusively from photo graphs of their subject, supplemented by detailed research into his attributes and works. In so doing the artists found, of course, that no single photograph is a so-called spit & image of a man. Rather, what he really looks like is a sort of photomontage of many different pictures. There, the creative act of portraiture moved, according to many who have studied and thought about TIME'S cover portraits, into a dimension beyond the scope of the still photograph...
Real as a gob of spit, as antiseptically moral as the Ma Perkins program, the surprisingly adequate film version of "The Hucksters" gives us jug-eared, musk-exuding Clark Gable, mounting a full-tilt attack on Inane Advertising; the picture is at the same time, however, the unconscious exemplar of much that is awry in the cinema industry...
...Sickness . . . is caused by very small germs. . . . A lot of them together look like a very small speck. They like the dark, dirty places. A few germs become a lot in a short time. . . . In spit there are too many to think of. . . . No one must spit in the igloo...
...Burning Tree. A nervous chain-smoker, likable young Lew Worsham had taken his wife to St. Louis with him, but made her stay back in the clubhouse. When he faltered momentarily on the 17th in the final round, one onlooker said: "There goes $50,000." But Worsham spit on his hands, with newsreels grinding beside him and shot a par. That gave him a two-under-par 282 for the 72 holes; he went off nervously to the lockerroom for a bottle of beer. He had the lead but it was not much of one. Twenty minutes later, Oldtimer...