Word: chap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualities Methodists want in their ministers, as enumerated in Pointers for Pastors [TIME, Jan. 13], and you have a soberly attired, mildly cheerful chap who carefully assays the theological predispositions of his congregation before writing a sermon, and who takes pains to put more prayer than thought into its preparation; is a safe conservative in his political and economic views; delivers special addresses only to groups of no social significance or consequence; keeps clear of the great issues of our time by handing them the cliché treatment; has no bad habits; addresses his spouse as "dearie"; and covers himself...
...harvard club in boston the other day just browsing you known and ran into a sophomore who was also just browsing, unpleasant chap he took a dislike...
...Lady Pirate. One day in 1935 brown-haired Mollie Slott, mother-hen of the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate, marched in to the late Captain Joseph M. Patterson, the P. T. Barnum of the U.S. comic strip. "There's a young chap in my office," she told him, "with a letter from John McCutcheon." Patterson groaned: "What, another fraternity brother?" Said Mollie: "But this is the one who does Dickie Dare" Her sons had sold her on Dickie, and she had given the boss a batch of the strips to look...
...romantic lead, a chap called David Kings-Cross who is identified variously as King Solomon and Alexander the Great, is to be handled by Ed A. Franklin...
...Horner is a Communist. But so well do the miners like him that they elected Horner only three months after they had flatly rejected affiliation with the Communist Party. Even Ernie Bevin and Herbert Morrison were prepared to admit that Horner was an efficient union leader and a nice chap. But, they fretted, "we wish he wasn't a Communist...