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Eugene Talmadge, tobacco-spittin', suspender-snappin' ex-Governor of Georgia, whose "white supremacy" spiels were his longtime political stock-in-trade, tooted a variation of his old tune in his weekly newspaper, the Statesman, urged Georgia's legislature to repeal the state's $1-a-year poll tax. Said he: "You will get a fairer, expression from the people. . . . There is a great deal of argument that the abolishment of the poll tax would put the Negro to voting . . . such is not the case. The Negroes as a class don't care to vote anyway...
Distaff: Button-popping with pride was pop-eyed Eddie Cantor, sonless father of five; a daughter had popped up with bells on in show business. Off the family payroll, onto Manhattan station WNEW's as a staff announcer was 21-year-old Marilyn, happily no spittin' image...
Magic Name. Though he is the spittin' image of his father, down to the unruly cowlick and the twangy voice, Will Jr. has not inherited his dad's gift for the newsy quip, the folksy gag. He has gone in for sterner stuff. Naturally hesitant to live in his father's shadow, for years he called himself Bill. He is not unmindful of the political value of his name and appearance. (For the campaign Bill has become Will Jr.) But as the earnest publisher of the Beverly Hills Citizen, Will Jr. has made a quiet name...
...South are guilty of taking scant notice of the letter "r" and naturally the phrase has come to be spoken as though it were "spittin' image...
However, the records on "spittin' image" should certainly be kept straight. I don't think that the expression has anything to do with saliva...