Word: spittooned
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About to deliver a soliloquy from Hamlet at an actors' dinner in Manhattan, Actor John Barrymore struck a classic pose, spied a microphone beside him, snarled: "Take away that inverted spittoon...
...conditioned Park Avenue office, said Picture Post's Hastings, "is equipped with a dictaphone, a telephone extension system which takes 20 incoming calls at the same time, and a brass spittoon. Joe has no use for the latter, but the utensil is traditional in every public place in America." For breakfast he has coffee, toast, fruit juice and cereal; for dinner, swordfish...
...carpet bag and the brass spittoon...
...Chinese figure not fighting on the side of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek is China's oldtime warlord General Wu Pei-fu, once master of middle China before the Generalissimo deposed him in 1926. He is respected for his eccentricity (he is followed wherever he goes by a faithful spittoon-bearer) and because he is as wily as Ulysses. Some time ago he was reported willing to be head puppet for the Japanese wire-pullers on two somewhat novel conditions: 1) he must be permitted to swear allegiance to Chiang Kaishek; 2) the Japanese must get out of China...
...Daughters of the American Revolution is an aristocratic high-hat institution whose members parade around like peafowls in silks and sealskins and imagine themselves the elect of the human race;" 2) catty whispers around D. A. R. headquarters intimated that one experience with miners had proved that the spittoon equipment of Constitution Hall was entirely inadequate; 3) the miners, 2,000 strong last week trooped through the dingy entrance of the old Rialto Theatre to attend their big meeting...