Word: chiselers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...papers do not report Mr. Cadmus' reactions. If he is wise, he will return to his garret and get to work on a painting of Washington at Valley Forge. Better men than he have learned that the pensioner must choke his muse, dry his tears, and paint, write, or chisel as he is told. Erasmus, for example, and Samuel Johnson. Only a Michelangelo could take a papal salary, tell the Cardinals to stick to their breviaries, and finish St. Peter's as he damn well pleased...
Regardless of age, good slang always sounds new. "Chisel" is 100 years old. "Yellow streak" is as fresh today as when Christy Mathewson put it into the language 30 years ago. In the 1890's Conan Doyle used "Don't try to play me for a sucker...
...hadn't made this memorial, I would have gone out of the world. Winds were blowing inside me, driving me on. Not a dollar is going into this work that I did not make with my own chisel...
...Chiseling' may be a slang word but chiseling is the chief threat to this movement. From your good town of St. Louis there came to my desk the other day a drawing of a turkey buzzard-a sickly opposite of the blue hawk. In his loathsome talons is a chisel. . . . Nothing more apt has come to this administration...
Again the slangy lowan, procurator of food prices under the Industrial Recovery Act, lashed out, this time in his Hearst Universal Service colyum: "If any group tries to chisel, we have the power and intention to come down on them hard...