Word: chap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first place I wouldn't advise any young college chap to go on the stage unless he has an income of his own", said Cyril Maude, the English actor who is now in Boston starring in "Aren't We All?" at the Hollis Street Theatre...
...Bootlegger remained, best of all best dogs. Said W. A. Davenport, critic: "He is a corky little chap, with a varmint expression, and his name is Barberryhill Bootlegger. He is the property of Bayard Warren and was born in the Barbary Hills Kennels, Pride Crossing, Mass., on Dec. 21, 1920. His mother was Western Wistful, a lady of great distinction and considerable social prominence. His father was Barberryhill Gin Rickey, an alcoholic champion whose son inherits his liberal ideas, as you can see by the name...
...Just a few days ago, the brightest little chap was in our office for some slight offence. He is ten years old, and his name is Brandall Bryant. He sells papers during vacation, and proudly announced that he had $200 in the bank that he had saved himself. When I asked him what he was saving his money for, the lifted his head and said, 'Why I'm going to Harvard, when I get through school.' The point of this preamble is that isn't there literature that you can send him so that he will be really interested...
Francis Ouimet: " I was the last American golfer to be eliminated from the British Amateur Championship Tournament. Roger Wethered beat me. I wrote to The New York World: ' His shots were played with precision and effect, and his putting was simply delightful. . . . He is a lovely chap and I have no regrets for losing to such a splendid sportsman...
...traditional Englishman visiting America left one of our small New England cities in disgust. He said they were having some sort of bally reunion and every hotel in the deuced place was so full of returning sons of the soil that a chap couldn't find room to sleep on the floor. He could not make anything out of it. Why should a man travel half across a continent to re-visit a town just because he happened to be born there...