Word: choppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high cross wind was kicking up a mean chop in the basin as the two crews left the starting line, with Abbot's boat jumping into an early lead. Keeping well ahead of the Tech eight, the Crimson boat gradually widened the margin to a length and a half at the bridge...
Once, after a furious row during rehearsals, she turned on her vegetarian adorer with: "Some day you'll eat a pork chop, and then God help all women!" Much more blandly she told bald Playwright Marc Connelly that she hadn't recognized him right off because he was wearing his hair a new way. She could meet any situation. One day, when her dog misbehaved in a taxicab, the driver let off a stream of profanity. Stella Campbell stared coldly at him, drawled, "Young man, that was me." She always did as she pleased. She was reputedly...
...parallel usage, cf. Hamlet, gravedigger scene: "Quite chop-fallen." Webster gives prat, Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, prat or pratt. Example: "We ain't to do nothing . . . but to set down upon our prats...
...school on Rancocas Creek, which runs by the farm. At Penn he was captain of the crew, later sculled for Penn A. C. He was never any great shakes as an oar until he worked out a stroke which no one could beat or imitate-a jerky, robot-like chop with no layback, which gets his blades in & out from 38 to 45 times a minute (average sculler's stroke: 28 to 32). Until this winter, when he decided he was going stale, he trained all year round on Rancocas Creek, racing against a stop watch strapped between...