Word: spittoon
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...porter's assistant. A large part of his ability to win financiers' confidence was that he not only did not hide this background but even exploited the curiosity value it gave him on Wall Street. Until his death, he kept on display in his office the brass spittoon that he had supposedly polished as his first job at Goldman, Sachs...
...joke, really," says San Francisco Dealer Dorothy Dubovsky. There is nothing funny, though, about the price of some of these minor treasures. It is virtually impossible to buy a genuine brass spittoon because all but a few are already ensconced in places of honor in private homes. The porcelain heads used by phrenologists 70 years ago ($350) and the brightly colored enamel coffee pots of the 1890s ($75) are so scarce that manufacturers are now busily and cheaply reproducing them. Fancy china Jim Beam bourbon bottles, cranked out in limited quantities in the 1950s and early '60s as gift...
...raining hard on Wednesday when the trial resumed; some water began to leak through the roof and drip down next to the defense attorney's table. The little wizened bailiff brought a spittoon over to catch the increasing flow of drops...
...America, described the House of Representatives as a place of "vulgar demeanor," without a single "man of celebrity." Lord Bryce complained that it made as much noise as "waves in a squall." Dickens scoffed that not even "steady, old chewers" in the House could hit a spittoon. And 19th century Americans generally referred to the House as the "Bear Garden." But the House has improved with age, writes Neil MacNeil, TIME'S chief congressional correspondent, in this entertaining account of its workings and its history...
...what he called ''The Cave of the Winds," dazzling his colleagues with his overblown oratory and the voters back home with a simple platform that promised to keep i) Negroes down and 2 ) the price of cotton up. He punctuated his Senate speeches with "pings" at a spittoon ten feet away (or. if it was not there, at the Senate carpet), often rose to his feet in the Senate in a fit of temper, hacked petulantly on the arm of his chair with a penknife if he could not get the presiding officer's attention. He defeated...