Word: chap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone looking at Alexander Foote a second time might remember him, but the chances are he wouldn't be looked at twice. A quiet chap of 44, about 5 ft. 9 in., with thinning, mouse-colored hair, he looks like the British civil servant he is; he works for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries now. But back in the '30s, he was a disgruntled salesman who had swallowed communism hook, line & sinker...
July 22 ... The young chap . . . made a famous attempt [to walk] this morning...
...only it wasn't Joe Schmoe, it was the president of the Free Enterprise Society, and he wasn't kidding. In other words, he meant it. That is to say, the fact that someone pronounced this anti-semite cliche of cliches was proof positive, to the President, that the chap was not an anti-semite. Or, to put it differently, the President was a little on the simple side...
...dancing a strange dance. Suddenly the wind fanned the flames, and the eerie light shone up into their faces. I recognized several deans and at least one House Secretary. I couldn't figure it out at the time, but looking back, I feel sure they were expunging some poor chap's name. God rest his soul...
...more reporters popped the question, and were brushed aside. Then a paunchy, scowling ex-sportwriter tried his hand. His own version of what happened next: "... A tall, not unhandsome chap arose, a man of spiritual mien and prematurely grey, arose to declare: 'My name is Westbrook Pegler, Mr. Wallace . . . You have reminded us journalists of the important duty of getting all the available facts. Therefore, I ask you to say whether you did or did not write certain letters...