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Clean and fill spit boxes.--Clean knives and forks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Master's Instructions Women For Hired Servant of 1814 Acquired by Widener Library From Heirs of John Pratt | 2/7/1935 | See Source »

...little citrus town in central Florida. One dawn last week 15 Department of Justice agents tapped quietly at the doors of houses near the newcomers', warned residents to get out of range. Then they surrounded the big, white house and cried, "Come out!" For answer they got a spit of machine-gun fire. There followed an ear-splitting six hours which Oklawahans will long remember. "It was like war," one of them gasped afterwards. Furious firing from both sides for 15 minutes or so would be followed by a lull, then a fresh outburst. About 11 o'clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Broken Backbone | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...Consensus was that whereas Barton had brightened up Hull's dour Jeeter, Bell's was even brighter still. In the matter of costume, Hull and Barton were about equally ragged and filthy. Bell's hat seemed a little less greasy, his dungarees a little less torn. He did not spit so emphatically as Hull, nor could he manipulate Jeeter's rheumatic legs so convincingly as Barton. In Bell's hands what Jeeter lost in wickedness, he made up in pathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Third Jeeter | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...Howard offers nightly Burlesque with a huge and lecherous capital B. The strip routine, the double entendre, the drooling septuagenarians in the first six rows, the general aroma of sweat and tobacco spit, would put the best efforts of the New York entrepreneurs to shame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 9/22/1934 | See Source »

...tennis, had lost to Crawford, 6-1, 6-2, 12-10, McGrath and Wood walked out on Wimbledon's centre court last week. McGrath, brushing his awkward backhand into the corners of Wood's court, took the first two sets, 7-5, 6-4. Wood stopped smiling, spit out his chewing gum and ran off the third, 6-1. After the ten-minute rest, he still seemed the more confident of the two. When he led at 5-2, it looked as if he had the match well in hand. Then a footfault judge called a point against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Davis Cup: Finals | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

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