Word: chopping
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...such rides they beheld Orientals going and coming in the streets, with the short scuffling step and the furtive stoop which they have borrowed from the cinema. They scrutinized the houses of these yellow men? miserable places for the most part, tenements, tumbled shanties, bars, and chop suey joints, all dingy, or garish, not one of them revealing the least hint of that exotic magnificence without which, as everyone knows, no Chinaman can exist. But the sightseers were not deceived...
...victim's window. They are carried up hotel elevators in packing cases; they train cobras to crawl through the speaking-tubes of limousines and bite their enemies on the lip; but the type of crime which entertains them most is the far simpler business of entering some all-night chop-suey restaurant, firing six or seven shots, and departing, while the proprietor splutters out his life upon the greasy floor. Of this daring feat no tongman seems to tire...
...William T. Tilden II played against a protégé of his, slender A. H. Chapin Jr., for the Nassau Challenge Cup. Protégé Chapin took four games in the first set. Then Tilden, remembering that youth will be served, began to serve cannonballs, to cut, chop, drive, until many thought that Chapin would cripple himself in his wild nourishes at mocking tennis balls. Tilden won the next 15 games, the match...
...Maurice E. McLoughlin, the California Comet, came blazing across the U. S., lawn tennis followers saw for the first time what efficiency could be displayed by a player who never, if he could help it, took a ball on the bounce, but rushed for the net, to volley, smash, chop. Many lively Californians since have endeavored to maintain their state's tradition for skill at the net. Last week, a youth named Edward G. Chandler of the University of California won the Intercollegiate Tennis Championship from Cranston Holman of Stamford, 6-4, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3. Though...
...many years ago the famous wooden statue of Hindenburg was erected in Berlin, and nails by thousands were driven into it in sign of devotion. His lowering figure, his chop whiskers, and his massive jowels were known in every nation of the globe, hated, honored, or feared. To half the world he was the epitome of German militarism. The end of the war apparently had sealed his fame for unlike many of the opponent generals, he vanished swiftly into a fierce and definite retirement. There was neither reason nor opportunity for toppling him from his iron pedestal, and so Germany...