Word: chop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Spitz) brought famed singer Richard Tauber to Broadway. First produced in 1928, Yours Is My Heart might well have been produced much earlier-its music has a dated schmalz and lushness, its plot a dateless inanity, its humor a primordial ghastliness. Shifting from a tacky Paris to a chop-suey Peiping, its romance of a French opera singer (Stella Andreva) and a Chinese prince gets snarled in dramatic difficulties long before it bogs in dynastic ones. Out of the debris emerges Tauber's fine tenor voice to sing the world-famous title song in English, French, Italian...
...comprehends the mysterious habits of fire and pure, sterile earth; for this it lives crammed together in slippery streets where the housewife must change white window curtains at least once a fortnight . . . / For this it exists-that you may drink tea out of a teacup and toy with a chop on a plate. . . . It is England in little, lost in the midst of England. . . . -Arnold Bennett...
...ardors and hazards of pig farming do not end in the maternity ward in April. At first sows and piglets have to be hand-fed with ground feed (chop) prepared according to a dietary formula as carefully worked out as a human baby's. At present, when the protein ingredients (chiefly soy and linseed meal) are often practically impossible to get, pig-feeding is not only an endless labor but a perpetual headache...
...Pottery of the "chop suey" period and other "terrible stuff" from China and Japan is about all that Gump's store in San Francisco has seen from the Pacific. Value: less than the G.I.s paid for it. No sale...
...Byrd, long the self-appointed primer of civil service's lush vine, suited his shears to the times. Noting that the vine had waxed during wartime until it bore 3,649,000 employes, he decided that it was too late for mere snipping. His proposal to the Senate: chop off all but 1,000,000 at a single slice, and send them back home...