Word: chiselling
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with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper . . . Usura rusteth the chisel It rusteth the craft and the craftsman It gnaweth the thread in the loom None learneth to weave gold in her pattern ; Azure hath a canker by usura; cramoisi...
...host left his room shortly thereafter and was not a little startled to see one of them holding open the incinerator while another was peering down it. He enthusiastically ran back, collected a hammer and chisel and a little bag, and returned to find them leaving. "We just wanted to see how it worked," they said...
...George & Ira Gershwin. There is Gracie Barrie to keep the good songs ringing clear, Buxom Mitzi Mayfair to strut the hot numbers, Paul Haakon to leap through the smooth ones. There is Bert Lahr, the most emphatic comedian on the revue stage, as a noisy Hollywood actor trying to chisel out of paying his income tax and as an over-manly baritone in a hickory shirt bellowing, "What do you chop when you chop a tree!" while occasionally getting an untimely handful of chips thrown in his face from the wings...
...glass was made last September at Marcus & Co., Manhattan jewelers. To startled passersby, it seemed that rich jewels and rare diamonds were theirs for the taking. Last week the illusion became something of a reality. Some miscreant, gazing at a jewelry-display behind the invisible pane, returned with hammer & chisel, chopped a hole in invisibility, walked off with three diamond rings worth $36,000. Police soon caught the culprit, recovered two of the three rings. Other invisible glass windows have been installed at the Chrysler Building showroom, Lord & Taylor's, Brooks Bros, and Woodward & Lothrop (Washington). Installations are being...
...character. Choosing swiftly between typography and taste, the Higher Up ordered the presses stopped at once. All copies of the Book Review already printed were destroyed. Since it was too late for costly re-plating, printers were ordered to scratch out the offending line of type with a chisel, smudge over the offending illustration with...