Word: chip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, to comfort his only son, widowed Patrolman Joseph McReddy bought a canary to replace the son's pet Chip which had died while the son was at school. The new bird escaped out the window. Father McReddy rushed to the tenement house roof, fell off the fire escape. When son McReddy came home he found his father dead as well as his canary...
...played tournament golf only two years, never before in a national championship. It looked easy. Playing along quietly, Enid Wilson was two up at the turn. By the 13th hole, however, Miss Glutting's splendid iron shots had put her one up. At the 14th she holed a chip shot for a half. And at the 18th came a curious thing. Miss Wilson, still one down, had an easy chip & putt to even the match, carry her young opponent to a nerve-wracking extra hole. Enid Wilson boggled the chip, missed the putt, conceded her opponent a two-foot sidehill...
...morning Virginia Van Wie shot a 73, putting Mrs. Vare's perfectly respectable 83 eight down. In the afternoon at the 22nd Miss Van Wie sank an eagle 3. At the 27th Mrs. Vare was still nine down. At the 28th, when Mrs. Vare's chip stopped ten feet short and she missed the putt, she conceded Miss Van Wie two putts from four-feet for hole, match & title, 10 & 8, the worst trouncing in a women's national final since the 1928 Vare-Van Wie match which ended...
...Radier is the love child of Madame Azai's, a leopard-trainer traveling with a circus in the Middle West. Of his father, Moise, a Dusseldorf banker, Pierre knows nothing but what his mother tells him, but the restless ambition in his blood testifies that he is a chip off the old block. Though he is an accomplished performer under the tents, the circus life does not appeal to him. His mother forgets past troubles in drink; Pierre simultaneously forgets and anticipates his troubles by making love at large. His first serious affair is with Joanna Ryan, a simple...
...German potato chip maker...