Word: chipped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Club for the few brave glimmers of serious dramatic art still tolerated in this cultural center had so grown upon us that such a drastic change seemed like the breaking of a cherished tradition. So we went to the dress rehearsal last night with a delicately balanced chip on our shoulder. But we came away smiling, eager to record that once when the Dramatic Club chose to be undramatic the result was a gay and tuneful frolic obviously hugely enjoyable to its participants and contagious in its entertainment value...
...charges lodged with the state legislature were identical in source and similar in substance to those which harassed the architect in 1923. Last week George E. Johnson, onetime Nebraska State Engineer, itemized various flaws-a great terrace bulging through its stone confines, priceless columns of tinted marble that were chipped and had been deceptively repaired; cracked stones. In 1923 his charges had been refuted and the document affirming their refutation signed by Engineer Johnson. Now, for some curious reason he has spoken again. Nebraskans recalled that Engineer Johnson had not been allowed to build the capitol, that Architect Goodhue...
...most states the adjournment of the legislature is an incident of interest only to the politically-minded. In Arkansas a fortnight ago it was a capital event, at least to the Haley Potato Chip Co., whose manager placed in the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette this advertisement...
WHOOPEE! HURRAH! The legislature has adjourned! Let's all close up and celebrate! At one o'clock this afternoon I shall close my potato chip establishment. I shall hang out my American flags and as they kiss again the air of freedom unpolluted by the foul breath of the legislative bribe takers, the boodlers, the demagogues and the little dictators so drunk with power that they even dare to shout infamously, "To hell with the constitution," I shall retire to the solitude of my home and I shall kneel before the pictures of George Washington, the founder...
...only scar I bear,' he said, 'is on my foot. I could show to you now if I were to take off my shoe. I got it by stepping on a red-hot iron chip in my bare feet at my father's blacksmith shop...