Word: spitting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Force. Force is necessary for children who spit out their food or those who vomit at will. Give such a child a small amount of the food; if he vomits give him more; continue until he keeps the food down. When he learns that you know his trick, he will stop. Begin this method when the baby takes his first spoonful of cereal...
...Harvard, Mr. E. E. Cummings, is travestied in a group of three poems which have fastened with a swoop and a whoop upon his startling technique. Mr. T. S. Eliot, too, appears here, under the thin disguise of T. S. Tellalot, and he, likewise, is turned upon the spit, crisply and with gusto...
...Latin Quartier, traffic was held up. Here and there, a few venturesome voices sang the Internationale, which was instantly drowned in roars of the Marseillaise. All doors were picketed by groups of students who had wisely provided themselves with food and wine. Shouts of "Conspuez Herriot!" (literally, "Spit upon Herriot!"), "A has Georges Scelle!'' "Vive le roil" "A has la Republique!" were frequently heard. Police and the Garde Republicaine were called out, attempted to restore order...
...Conqueror of Peru, the boisterous cattleman from Panama, who sailed home to Spain and had himself made Viceroy of New Castile; who sailed back; slaughtered Incas for their gold at Cuzco and thought himself a very great Emperor indeed. "Ha!" say the monks, and look as if they would spit upon those miserable bones...
...Christmas day in the morning, bellringers spit on their hands; they catch hold of the ropes that go up into rimed steeples. "Ding dong," goes the first faint and shaken bell; swallows leap out of the belfry. "Ding, dong," peals the carillon, its notes dropping into the air like stones into water...