Word: sputters
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...discouraged, gloomy and pessimistic," said Dr. William T. Hornaday last week. It was not what he said nor the way he said it, but the reasons which he gave for his feelings that made the Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture sputter with indignation...
...production proceeds, one is convinced that all such amateur actors are fools, that their husbands or fathers invariably drop dead in the cause of art", and that, whenever the "torch of concomitant culture" has been raised, it is doomed to sputter out, leaving contented homes in blissful darkness...
With the dying wiggle of the final snake dance, football becomes largely a matter of theoretical bitterness. During the season one may bet on one's theories; now it is only possible to sputter. Those whose business it is to sputter in print have drawn up the following list of sectional champions...
...dispenser at the Ford stations, a man with a nose for cars will have to be evolved. The collapsible automobile appears to be in for its day. A few reefs handled in here and there, a disguised radiator, a squeaking device, and even the majestic Rolls Royce will sputter up to the filler and demand an injection of sixteen-cent...
...Today Beneker is doing the same job in a peacetime environment-promoting the morale of labor and fostering understanding between employer and employee. How "Peggy" Hirsh and other hard-boiled Hungarian, Polish and Italian laborers-first indifferent or hostile, then fascinated by the man who could paint in the sputter and glare of the open hearth and Bessemer converters-fight for the chance to have their faces immortalized on the cover of the Company's house organ, is told in a rippling mélange of anecdote, esthetics and idealism. "Dat feller is painting God mitoudt seeing him," said...