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Word: spitter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...colleagues chatting and chortling as they awaited their cues in the wings; of that same vicious Valkyrie going at them finally, gathering a maximum of saliva and spitting it. But the enraged Olszewska missed the hated Jeritza and her spittle landed upon a Madame Kittle. The inaccurate spitter was temporarily expelled from Vienna's opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Unison | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

...Arthur Sidney Tompkins gave the maximum penalty. Many were shocked. It appeared that conspiracy to defraud the city, when millions were involved, was simply a misdemeanor. Mr. Connolly was sentenced to a year in jail, a fine of $500. Criminally he had attained no greater stature than a subway spitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Misdemeanor | 10/29/1928 | See Source »

...Crimson-Petrel battle was a desperately fought affair. Not a run was made until the seventh inning. Jack Morris, on the hill for the little Atlanta School, had a spitter that completely baffled the Cambridge contingent. In addition to that, the visitors were getting all the worst of the umpire's decisions not that Eubanks was making any faulty rulings intentionally but any southern team would have squawked to high heaven had such decisions been make against them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 4/26/1921 | See Source »

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