Word: spittoon
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...same letter Dickens writes that he has not seen any place that he likes as well as Boston. "I hope I may be able to return there, but I fear not. We are now in the regions of slavery, and spittoons, and senators. All three are evils in all countries, but the spittoon is the worst. I don't see the use of it, either. If it be in deference to the opinion of society, I for one, would rather not be obliged to imagine constantly what may be inside that circular orifice. I prefer the box of sand, which...
...Paris, 30 smokers, each provided with a spittoon, cuspidor or bowl, met at the annual open-air smokers' tournament, established many records. Marathon money went to one M. Lenoble, who made a pipeful last 51 min. 11 3/5 sec. (without going out); speed prize to M. Bibendum (President of the Fat Men's Club) who, with perspiration-beaded temples, finished a pipe in 1 min. 10 sec. Cigaret-smoking contests for speed, for endurance, were won by M. François Fratellini (member of a famed clown family) whose performances were: 1 min. 3 sec., 38 min. Cigar...
...return the greeting but merely "muttered comments which I did not hear." On Mar. 5, 1905, he ordered a whiskey, lifted high his glass. "If I ever take another drink," he declaimed, "I hope to choke, so help me God." The rabble guffawed. Sullivan poured the drink into the spittoon-a conversion which constituted the chief prop of the Temperance Party for years thereafter. In 1915, on a small Massachusetts farm, John L. Sullivan died...
Several.... frequently missed the spittoon at five paces, and one mistook the closed sash for the open window at three...
...SPITTOON."It is a tale