Word: spitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently the C.I.0. secretary turned to spit once too often. For suddenly at the start of this week Mr. Green announced that his executive council had expelled the United Mine Workers and two other C.I.0. unions, the Flat Glass Workers and the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers. And the action had been taken in secret session three days before. Announcement was delayed pending the arrival of a certified copy of the miners' purged constitution...
...Capital's Gignoux and Leon Jouhaux, leader of some 5,000,000 French trade unionists, was denounced by Comrade Arthur Ramette, Communist leader. "If you want your liberty,-I will give it to you!" cried the Premier, weary after weeks of strife. "I will not let the Communists spit in my face...
Angna Enters' tourist observations are sometimes so accurate as to be childlike, as when she remarks that all Spaniards spit. Far from childlike, however, are the rich and strange characters she has imagined, costumed and made live in pantomime: a sultry, majestic Spanish girl of the 16th Century dancing the slow Pavana; a tragically refined pre-War young woman at a party in Vienna Provincial; and Queen of Heaven, for which Miss Enters recently got into the bad books of the Roman Catholic bishop of Montana. having quoted, as a program note, Henry Adams' remark that...
Magistrate Kross decided Spit's criss-crossed viewpoint was the result of having left the slums for a brief taste of fame. She requested Playwright Kingsley, as the man responsible for the play, to report to her chambers. Wary Playwright Kingsley pleaded pressure of work, invited Magistrate Kross to visit him at his home where "we can discuss this issue rationally, as two human beings interested in a third. . . . The only real blame I have is that the play didn't run forever. I will do my best to remedy that the next time." Magistrate Kross adjourned Spit...
...winter's day a Russian ballet comes to the village. One of the dancers is the spit-&-image of Mansell's dead fiancee, is, in fact, her cousin. Mansell marries her. In 1955, at book's end, he is still a munitionsmaker (interested in ''anything that shortens war and limits the rule of generals in human affairs"), but is more famed for his London ballet theatre, his model garden city of St. Margaret's, which blankets the fields where fox hunters once jumped or fell...