Word: chap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night last week, Alberta's Attorney General Lucien Maynard lugged a portable radio into the Legislative Assembly at Edmonton. With one ear he followed the debate, with the other listened to a hockey game in Calgary. A conscientious chap, he kept fellow legislators informed of the score by hand signals. Maynard's enthusiasm was something every Canadian could understand. In Canada, hockey is the national game...
Smoke bombs were dropped by one of the trio described as "a lean thin fellow," while another "pock-marked chap" took command of the cashiers' cage...
...questions came fast. Where was his home town? He did not seem to understand. Where was he born? That was easier: "In Kuibyshev, on the Volga River." "We know all about the Volga," a brassy chap informed him. "We have a song called The Volga Boatman" "Very nice song," observed the ambassador...
...editors of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express, the six-month trial run of Steve Canyon had been quite a trial. Steve had been a problem to the 3,870,000 readers of the Express, too. Milton Caniff's comic-strip airline operator was a likable enough chap, but how was one to understand him without a pony? Even to inveterate followers of the U.S. cinema, such terms as "leg it," "front boy," "Hood" and "gee" were hard to translate. Express editors, who have had to doctor much of the Canyon dialogue for British readers, were nonplussed...
...that go on in everyone's life all over the world." Donald Duck, Mandrake the Magician and King of the Royal Mounted have been accepted because they are easily understood, and Super-Sleuth Rip Kirby is doing nicely in the Daily Mail. "He's a fairly quiet chap with pipe and glasses," said a Mazlman, "and our people seem to go for that type of hero...