Word: chop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether Thurber's drawing requires psychiatry or not, a great many people, including New Yorker Editor Harold Ross, cannot get enough of it. A series of murals, executed by Thurber years ago in Manhattan for Tim Costello's Third Avenue saloon (known to its clientele as "The Chop House of Broken Dreams"), is one of the extracurricular features of the establishment. The late Paul Nash, British painter and art critic, once declared Thurber "a master of impressionistic line," comparing him to the early Matisse...
...prefect of Bome is in a hurry to get rid of some Christians before the newly elected emperor, Constantine, can arrive and ease their plight. The prefect herds several hundred Christians from the catacombs to violent death before a packed Coliseum. Roman soldiers and gladiators chop off their hands, string them up by their thumbs and by their toes, and burn them alive. Then they unleash a pack of hungry lions, and the stands go wild. So do the lions. So does the movie audience. There hasn't been anything like it in cinema history. If only it were...
...leave Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio; he might even lose his U.S. citizenship. There were some other jokers too. The death tax in England and other debts would take more than half the estate, leaving him but $112,000 and an income of around $5,000 a year. Income tax would chop off perhaps half of that. Upkeep would be expensive and the four servants hardly seemed enough. The biggest problem, thought Gape, was England itself: he was worried about rationed food and Socialist government...
...brass band avoided the mortar-crumpled south gate and the shattered railway station where, on Children's Day as on all other days, the abandoned, the homeless, the orphans prowled restlessly, begging, stealing, conniving to stay alive. They screamed "chop-chop" (food) at G.I.s, hovered hungrily around the soldiers who uncomfortably ate their rations...
...morning, gets all the out-of-town shorts and headline news stories he can use during the seven-hour run. Under most setups, he can find out what he is getting on tape by reading a companion printer which types out stories in sentence form, then he can either chop the tape to edit his stories or edit them in type. By press time, his tape-fed typesetters have clanked out the day's ration...