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Sirs: Your ''spitting image" (TIME, Aug. 30. p. 11), which is meaningless, should have been "spit an' image." You doubtless have interpreted what you have heard "spittin' image," and, being punctilious, have supplied the g. You may supply the d for an', too, if you wish. Saliva, like blood, breath, etc., has been regarded, by many peoples of the world, as having supernatural potency, and, of course, intimately associated with one's being. In the folk-mythology of both hemispheres, saliva is often associated with conception. It is reported that among the Gypsies...
After reading your article, one gets a big picture of musician Joseph Adam, trembling, but courageous, facing an audience of long-bearded, rawboned (your own word), two-gunned, tobacco-spittin' individuals, booted and spurred and clad in chaps and ten-gallon hats, smelling unpleasantly of cattle. They have the noose ready and the tree all picked out in case Director Adam fails to please...
...pushing a German advantage for all it was worth. Of a sudden, a boom, boom, boom crashed in martial notes through the air, followed by the appalling noise of drum fire: boom, boom, drum, drum, drum, boom, boom, etc. Long lines of tanks ambled across the broken lines spittin fire to the accompaniment of the chugging engines. Behind, great waves of infantry bore down upon the enemy who were driven back of Soissons, their communication severed and the battle ended, the first of a final series which terminated the War in a victory for the Allies on November...