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Word: chink (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silver. Inevitably the Chinese market was flooded, the price of silver fell. Inevitable too was the bearish selling of Chinese speculators last week. But silver-men opined last week that in spite of its new low, silver faced no crisis. Optimists even prophesied that Chinese silver would again chink to better prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fallen Silver | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

...over the island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn the sport as the essence of manhood and beauty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: The Pit | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...SILENT HOUSE-About a slinking Chink (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 23, 1928 | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

...that Chink who wrecked my shirt...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/30/1927 | See Source »

...green banners behind the proscenium, or a street in the Venetian ghetto of the Merchant of Venice, with every stick and stone and human being arranged with indefatigable precision by Belasco, king of realists. The spectator never can quite persuade himself that he is peeking through a chink in the fourth wall of the room, hiding behind a poison ivy vine in the woods, or bobbing about behind a wave on the ocean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Expressionism | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

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