Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...drinking water had salt in it. Food supplies ran short. Cigarets were soaked, so the crew smoked dried tea leaves and fresh coffee rolled in pages torn from the Bluejacket's Manual. The auxiliary engine was useless. It was impossible to sail her. Day after day, a chip in a maelstrom, the 3070 tossed on the heaving Atlantic, battered by soft. waves, driven by the whims of one storm after another...
Young Captain Patrick Bannon, a "sound chip off an old Gloucester block" ("God rest his iron soul"), is a Reservist whom the Navy has told to "fish a little longer." Obeying the order with a true seaman's pleasure ("his mighty nose snuffed up the spray's champagne"), he takes the "sweet sailer and . . . good earner" Daniel Webster out to the Grand Banks with a weather eye peeled for wartime trouble. Aboard are two new men, Danes by their claim-Conrad and Holger...
...gaslit Apollo Rooms on Lower Broadway: Beethoven's Fifth (V for Victory) Symphony, Weber's Oberon Overture and a Gargantuan assortment of operatic arias sung by a lady named Madame Otto. To finance his first season, Ureli Corelli Hill persuaded each man in the orchestra to chip in $25. Profits, at the end of the season, were to be divided equally. When the time came, Ureli Corelli Hill learned what every other symphonic impresario has confirmed: that symphonic music is not a paying proposition. Each of the Philharmonic's musicians got back $15 on his $25 investment...
Finally, there is the old chip-on-the-shoulder tradition: there must be an excuse for violence before the American can feel morally justified in being aggressive...
...with a flair for expressing that particular chip on his shoulder should try out for the Editorial Board. Here he will not only write editorials on national and college topics, but will be able to indulge in Vag, the impersonal personification of every man's unborn desire; he will write Moviegoers and Playgoers, as well as many other interesting features of the Editorial Board...