Word: chap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years this Amery, a charming chap in his cups, had been wrong. Known to his friends as "The Rat," he left Harrow at 16, hurried to Lausanne to do the night spots. After 74 traffic violations had been charged against him, he was barred from England's roads...
...faces, their hands blistered so badly that water was dripping from their fingers and their scorched and hairless heads. . . . Men, both living and dead, were terribly mangled. .... We found one worker pinned under a twisted column. There was a piece of steel reinforcement through his neck. . . . There was another chap [whose legs were] buried under a pile of bricks and debris. ... He told us to get him out and never mind his legs, 'leave them there...
...Just as insistently the Labor Party had urged delay till autumn (in hopes that they would). Quipped Labor's Arthur Greenwood of Max and Brendan: "M & B* can save a man once-it saved Winston when he had pneumonia-but M & B a second time can ruin a chap...
...wife Eve in Beckenham, Kent, "when I suddenly remembered your lock of hair in my pocket. Yours was four-thousandths of an inch thick and dead-black. So four strands were fixed on four of my fine needles-it took me hours-and the surgeon, who is a marvelous chap, let me watch your hair sewing up chaps' nerves in the head. Today there are four men walking around with your hair in their heads...
...could throw his voice (his mother was forever answering the door in response to pleas of mysterious old men who begged to be let in). The boy was further in spired by Herrman's Wizards Manual, Secrets of Magic, Black Art, Mind Reading and Ventriloquism (including a chap ter on "how to cut a man's head off and put it into a platter a yard from his body"). Charlie McCarthy was just what Bergen needed. The little dummy was such a social success (unlike Bergen alone) that he lured Bergen from his university premedical studies into vaudeville...