Word: spitted
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...genius, scourge of account executives. . . The man who had built and broken more stars than anyone else in radio . . . who had fired a world famous Metropolitan Opera soprano because she wouldn't sing Some of These Days. . . . Mr. Evans raised his straw-covered head once more, hawked and spit on the mahogany board table. . . . It was always there, the feeling of fear. It hung in the air in the office of Evan Llewelyn Evans. . . . The Fear...
...next picture was too much for W.C.T.U. President Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin to bear; she protested to the studio that youth everywhere might be inspired to do likewise. But the studio set her at ease; the drink would be something unthinkable-Scotch and bourbon mixed-and Shirley would spit it out in horror...
...illustrate this cozy miracle, Dali characteristically drew on his modern and Freudian imagination instead of trying to recapture Cellini's childish wonder. Result: Dali's salamander looked more like a roasting, disjointed dragon on a barbecue spit...
...Walter C. McBride, an intrepid fellow. Dr. McBride, director of children's dentistry at the University of Michigan, spoke a heartfelt mouthful about mothers who insist on following their young into the operating room. Particularly objectionable: the mother-knows-it-hurts type; the ones who say "Johnny, spit like the dentist told you to." Mama, Dr. McBride forcibly implied, should stay the hell in the waiting room...
...hundreds of cities, renters of apartments, buyers of grain, textiles, beer, and almost every short article might propose the never-won wager: "Betcha I can spit farther than...