Word: bloke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...just idling off when a fellow on a bike buzzed up. "I want you," he said. "Your place has copped it." He lent me the bike-decent bloke he was-and I burned up the main road toward home. Soon as I got near I could see it was close -crowds and the most awful bloody wreckage all over the lot, police lines streets away. ... I took a quick look. Our house was standing-well, more or less standing. But it was blitzed to bloody hell-the roof clean off, the windows and doors gone, the walls sagging...
...some far, some near. The closest I saw wasn't at the house. I was up at a housing estate one night much farther away. I was standing where the air-raid shelters are in the middle of the green among the houses, chatting to a bloke, and one come in. We watched it and it looked like it was going to pass about 400 yards to our right, and it suddenly wings over and dives smack...
...buddies fill the subways, the busses, the cabs, the theaters, the pubs and hotel bars. In astonishing numbers they go to gawk through the iron fence at Buckingham Palace in the hope of seeing the King. Says a cockney, also gawking: "He's a decent bloke, you know. Works hard. I wouldn't have his job." Says G.I. Joe: "Yeah, not much chance for promotion...
Then there is the Winthrop House and De Wolfe Street Yo-Yo and top Spinning Society which claims to hold meetings at odd hours under the Lars Anderson Bridge. A rather shady looking bloke, claiming he was a charter member, gave a last spin to his Yo-Yo and retired for the night whistling "Yokahama Yo-Yo" until it was lost on the night...
...Chief at his word: "When are we getting rid of this bloody antiquated lathe?" Air force men of one unit, not recognizing the coatless man who stopped by one morning, started kidding him about the regulation black tie he was wearing. Said Tedder: "Oh, I'm a headquarters bloke. You know how stuffy the Chief...