Word: choppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy underwear. He likes to eat in Gus Popupolis' restaurant, whose sign reads: WHERE GREEK FEEDS GREEK. Hackberry has annual huntin', shootin' and bird-dog competitions. When there's a wood-cutting contest the Hackberry Courier likes to announce that "Mr. Polecat Crittenton . . . offers to chop his fiancee against any entrants. . . ." The people of Hackberry are shrewd, but reasonable...
...children. About three weeks ago my wife said: 'Well, Dad, I went to the butcher and look what I bought for $3.45.' Well, I looked at it, and this is what was there: About a pound and a quarter of a cutlet, about a pound of chop meat, and a little piece of pork which we would say after you trim the fat off it, if it comes to a snowball you have a lot of meat. Now that dinner had to last us Saturday and Sunday for a family of five...
Gastronome. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Koontz, whose husband Jesse complained that she chewed snuff, spit it on the walls, and dumped garbage in his bed, won her divorce case. The grounds: he had threatened to chop her head off for putting the wrong milk in his gravy...
...taught from the stirring life around her. Each morning she put on her black hat with a feather on it, her scarf, galoshes, sweater and coat, and went to her class. She earned her $2,100 a year. At night, after she had graded papers, she cooked a chop and potatoes, carried her supper into the big empty dining room, lit the chandelier, put a book beside the plate, and read as she ate, "the flowing sentences combing out her thoughts, resting her mind as delicously as if the sea swept rhythmically through her head...
...Every day he rose at 8, draped a bathrobe over his pajamas and watched his breakfast roll in-grapefruit, cereal, soft-boiled egg, toast, coffee. There were few things an old man could enjoy, but he damn well did like and insist on grapefruit, and for lunch a chop and spinach. He liked spinach. No cigars. Gave up cigars 35 years ago on the advice of his doctor. A touch of whiskey now and then...