Word: spitted
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...Marines still have a fanatic pride in their Corps, accumulated through the years by service in foreign parts, in troublous times. As in 1800, Marines are still preoccupied with smart appearance, cling jealously to fancy dress uniforms of blue, scarlet and gold, raise their sea soldiers in the spit-&-polish tradition. A pressing table and a board for polishing brass buttons are as much a part of Marine equipment as rifles and bayonets. Marines have never forgotten that their crack-shooting riflemen in the tops of the Bon Homme Richard helped John Paul Jones to glory against Britain...
...Hampshire's grim, trumpet-voiced Senator Charles William Tobey, Republican head-hunter on the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures. He expected to be joined by Arkansas's Senator John Elvis Miller, a Democrat but no New Dealer. Senator Tobey got a room in Newark, whetted his ax, spit on his hands and took a stance. Just as he was about to swing, word came from Washington that Senator Miller could not appear, no one else on the committee could be spared, it would be highly improper for Republican Senator Tobey to sit alone on an investigation...
Digging a well in lonely northern Texas late in 1880, an oldtime settler sipped its water, spit it out in puckery disgust. Later he learned its medicinal value, watched mineral wells rapidly mushroom about him. Soon Mineral Wells, Tex. became a mecca for U. S. health seekers. One of them was a woman with a brain disordered by menopause. She lived to a sane old age and the font from which she had sipped was christened Crazy Well...
...when, following a rule of The Literary Digest, then his sponsor, that no material already aired be included in his script, he failed to report the first broadcast of Pope Pius XI. Promptly he was swamped with messages accusing him of being anti-Catholic. Wrote a Mrs. McCaffery: "I spit on you, you Orangeman." Next day Thomas related a gentle human-interest story about how Monsignor (now Archbishop) Spellman of New York made a big impression on his folks in Massachusetts when he was chosen to translate the Pope's speech...
...down by tea served hot in buckets right on the blazing job. In the Express, owned by Aircraft Production Minister Baron Beaverbrook, slick Columnist John MacAdam shamefacedly wrote of the Auxiliary Fire Service that before the Blitzkrieg began "we used to smile a little at them sometimes. 'The spit and polish firemen,' some people called them and there were others who used to talk about 'three pounds ten a week for playing darts.' The A. F. S. took it all with a shrug-in much the same way as they now take the chorus of inner...