Word: chopping
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...them read English, they were surprised to learn that they were expected to comply with NRA's minimum wage and hour provisions: $6.82 for a 20-hr. week. $12.40 for a 39-hr, week. Most important wage basis in a Chinese laundry is the liberal meal of rice, chop suey and tea served at noon, much relished by the industry's Negro employes. After 15 leading launderers had been summoned for wage violation, Louis Wing, president of Wing Moisture Blower Co. and a power in the Chinese Laundry Alliance, pledged the local NRA enforcement officer that the laundrymen would henceforth...
Daughter of a Chinese laundryman named Sam Sing Tsong, Anna May Wong's real name is Wong Liu Tsong (Frosted Yellow Willows). She grew up on Flower Street in Los Angeles' chop-suey section, attended Los Angeles Central High School. Her ambition to become an actress sprouted when she caught sight of the late Alma Rubens in an elevator. Sam Sing Tsong objected when his daughter got extra jobs on location scenes in Chinatown. Was it not true that every time a picture is taken, its subject loses part of his soul? Nonetheless, Anna May Wong carried...
Over Brooklyn. Longtime partners in a Manhattan chop-suey restaurant were Edmund On Wong and Fong Tru Shek. Inseparable, they prospered together, became air-minded, bought a joint interest in an Avro Avian biplane. Their ambition was to become Chinese Air Force pilots. Last week Student Pilots Wong & Fong decided to put on an aerial exhibition to welcome to the U. S. Chang Fa-kwei, China's famed "Iron General." Fong flew the Avian. Wong hired a tiny 2-cyl. Aeronca at Flushing Airport. Over Brooklyn's people-packed Williamsburg district they flew in close formation, weaved back...
...grocery store windows were tattered signs: SOLD OUT. Two days before, butchers had hung up their bloody aprons to go home for the weekend. They did not return to take them down. If they had, there would have been no meat for them to chop. Milk and bread wagons made infrequent deliveries. A private family in San Francisco stood a good chance of going hungry if it had not laid in plenty of supplies. Once in a while a doctor's car went by, with its card authorizing its owner to buy gas at a few "accredited" depots. Visitors...
...match on Sunday. Miss Round won the first set. 6-2. Miss Jacobs won the second, 7-5. There was a moment in the third when Miss Jacobs needed only one point to lead at 3-1. When Miss Jacobs came to the net behind a weak forehand chop and Miss Round lobbed neatly over her head, it gave the English girl the confidence to run out set and match...