Word: spittooned
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...Amorin de Fritscher looked older than her 39 years. As she dusted the carved cedar choir stalls of Lima's 300-year-old cathedral, her son Federico, 11, worked beside her. "I came to live here 17 years ago," she said as she finished cleaning the white-enameled spittoon beside the archbishop's throne. "I was the bride of Federico Fritscher, bell-ringer and caretaker of the cathedral. The pay was small but there were tips from the tourists, and here we paid no rental. With our seven children we were poor but happy...
...Opera's Lauritz Melchior helped to win dismissal of a complaint against the Korn Kobblers, a band of zany musicians. The police charge: the band had been riding along Broadway, making "unnecessary noise" with instruments that included "a pipe, a washboard and something that looked like an inverted spittoon." Testified Melchior: some musicians, like Wagner, are simply ahead of their time. He assured the judge that to his sensitive ear, the Korn Kobblers were "expressing themselves in true American folk music...
...aide, K. C. Adams, worked over his chewing tobacco and spat copiously into a spittoon as Lewis waved a copy of last year's contract. "We have the bond," John thundered. "Do we get the ducats?" This week, a little ahead of time, his miners began to walk...
...Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into a brass spittoon. The other is standing firmly before the fireplace, warming the seat of his blue serge pants, and the conversation runs as follows...
Thereupon bullet-headed Daikichi Ubukata, 67-year-old Democrat, rose solemnly from his blue plush seat, slowly wobbled over to a porcelain spittoon in one corner to execute a unique political comment. Ubukata was heard boasting in a bus next morning: "I am probably the only person in history who has ever relieved himself in the main hall of the Diet...