Word: chap
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bear grudge) ran into four figures, not counting dollar sings and decimal points. Mine has well been called the most sensational comeback since Sheridan's return to the Union army at Winchester. (N.B.--All historical references are supplied by Joe, Jr, a bright little chap...
...less Yale team. But that's all you know about it. What a surprise you're for. As for Harvard and Brown, I really prefer not to say. For on that game little Joe and I have had our first big differences of opinion. And who knows, the little chap may be right. So I'll just keep still. Yale 16 Princeton 7 Dartmouth 34 Cornel l7 Michigan 13 Navy 7 Notre Dame 20 Army 6 Georgetown 27 Boston College 0 Tufts 20 Bowdoin 0 Williams 14 Amherst 3 N. Y. C. 13 Penn State...
Although there is nothing vital in the book it is pleasant enough reading. There is the hardworking editor of the Banner, very devoted to his wife. Her uncle owns the Banner and of course she has the money. A dark, handsome chap, her childhood lover, appears suddenly, conducts himself in a manner to provoke scandalous gossip, succeeds in compromising the lady, and turns out to be the villain who robs ignorant foreigners of their hoarded pennies. A "hometown" girl furnishes the aristocratic flavor. Having eloped with an impoverished Russian count, she returns to air her sophistications and provide limitless material...
...Goodbye, old chap," said Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David of Wales, then dashed for and into his briskly moving compartment...
...apparently trying to foster a habit of "newsing," which is to reading as feeding is to dining. Your ideal subscriber is the snappy chap who rushes into a feeding place, glares because no stool is vacant, spots the man who is up to pie, takes his stance behind him, elbows rivals for the vacancy out of the road, barks his order at the waitress, pulls TIME out of his pocket, and then for 15 minutes glues his eyes to the page while his right hand automatically pokes grub into his mouth to be gulped down in hunks...