Word: chopped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Consistency," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "is the hobgoblin of little minds." Surely you would not have me wallow in its quicksands, Mr. Fletcher; surely in these days of my ascendancy, you do not adhere to the mutton-chop philosophies of Truth for Truth's sake. Modern souls use ideas as weapons, and judge them according to their effect. What do I care whether the appeal is to honesty, truth, love, brotherhood, or patriotism so long as in their name men will do and act as I have planned...
...scientists are suited by temperament and intellect to keep vigil on the heights where paradoxes flourish in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life-germ through a thicket of test tubes. Some workers must patrol the vales & swales where humbler things may be found beneath any stone. Such upturned stones during the past fortnight disclosed the following...
...time all prostitutes and opium-dealers were expelled from any city in which they were stationed. This was not always the case, however, for a member of my staff who visited Kalgan during the Kuominchun occupation brought me back a packet of opium sealed with the official 'chop' of the Kuominchun tax-collecting bureau, and reported that a new method of dealing with houses of prostitution had been devised. They were compelled to display a Christian text in Chinese on each side of the door. The fee for each board was five dollars. And the texts...
...career of Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, New York City's most notorious racketeer, the nation's most prosperous post-Repeal criminal and the one big hoodlum against whom the U. S. Government could not make income tax charges stick (TIME, Aug. 12, et ante). At the Palace Chop House & Tavern, officers, newshawks and surgeons beheld a sight unparalleled since Chicago's St. Valentine's Day Massacre (TIME, Feb. 25. 1929). Lying on the sidewalk they found Abraham Landau, Flegenheimer henchman, where he had collapsed after a futile attempt to pink the two assassins. Just inside, Bernard...
...There the Government went after him again, this time on a tax evasion indictment in the Southern New York district. Fighting a Federal motion to send him back to New York, Flegenheimer was at liberty on $50,000 bail when his enemies caught up with him in the Palace Chop House & Tavern...