Word: chap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hitchcock, who admits to a liking for murder amid babbling brooks, steps up the excitement of his picture by deftly under stating his saboteurs' characters. One (Alan Baxter), a nice chap who might be an accountant, amiably discusses his children and their future with Cummings, who has passed himself off as a ring member...
...Asiatic Fleet. A good choice, certainly. The focus of all operations in the southwest Pacific is a British naval base, Singapore, but the greatest actual and potential naval power in the Pacific is U.S. power. And even the British are willing to admit that Tommy Hart is a progressive chap. His American colleagues think he is more than that; they think he is as tough of mind as he is wiry of body, that he is aggressive, independent, wide-awake (TIME...
...flew in at 2,000 feet. . . . When Balbo came over, an Italian cruiser in the harbor . . . opened fire and struck the Marshal's plane with a direct hit. . . . All this talk about him having been betrayed into an ambush was utter rot. . . . He was really a first-class chap . . . and I'm glad of a chance to clear this business...
Unique among the 7,000-odd scholars of Cambridge is a mild young chap of less than average stature who is a philosopher, a psychologist, a photographer, a mechanical engineer-to-be, and in moments not otherwise occupied, a tumbling, balloon-breaking, white-faced clown with a putty nose...
...characters who have dialed the University number in the bleak stretch between two and seven in the morning. An elderly anti-vivisectionist, convinced that Harvard Medical School had stolen his Angora, tried to wheedle a confession of catnapping out of the switchboard workers. Weirder yet was the husky-voiced chap who, informed that no Biology professors were available at four-thirty A.M., startled a sleepy operator by inquiring, "Do you know of any one else, then, who would like to buy my body? I must get $10,000 at once...