Word: chapman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WEST VIRGINIA. Republican Chapman Revercomb had surprised even himself in 1942 by edging out demagogic, 73-year-old Matt Neely, West Virginia's one-man office-holding machine (five times Congressman, thrice Senator, once governor). This time there was less likely to be a surprise. Tub-thumping Matt Neely reminded his good friends the miners of Revercomb's Taft-Hartley vote, reminded Jews and Catholics that Revercomb had refused Tom Dewey's personal plea to broaden provisions of the D.P. bill...
Coroner Creek (Columbia). For a reason which he carefully keeps to himself, Randolph Scott, the hero, stalks and finally gets George Macready, the heavy. During the unnecessarily long time the job takes, he becomes foreman for a ranch-owning widow (Sally Eilers), converses occasionally with a lady (Marguerite Chapman) who runs a hotel with photogenic interiors, and is chivalrous to the heavy's drunken wife (Barbara Reed). Although these ladies plainly suffer serious emotional upsets every time he comes near them, Randolph scarcely seems to notice. He is much too busy riding up, down and across the landscape, looking...
...Kentucky, triple-chinned Representative Virgil Chapman, tippling 300-lb. friend of the tobacco growers, nosed out labor-backed John Young Brown, onetime Congressman, for the Democratic senatorial nomination. In November he will oppose Republican John Sherman Cooper, who won a tradition-smashing victory in the 1946 off-year election...
...both sides of New York's East River (a buffer between Manhattan and Brooklyn), the news of baseball's Black Friday bounced down on the unbelieving. In all baseball history, there had never been such a roar from the bleachers. It drowned out the news that Ben Chapman, manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, had been fired the same day. Loyal Giant rooters vowed never to set foot in the Polo Grounds again. In Brooklyn, there were stand-up-&-fight arguments in Flatbush bars. Breezy Leo Durocher, once referred to as a "moral bankrupt" by a baseball club owner...
Somewhat against its better judgment, Chapman & Hall, the London publishing house of which Evelyn's father was head, had brought out his first slim, satiric novel, Decline and Fall. It was a lighthearted little tale of moral turpitude about a young Oxonian named Paul Pennyfeather, who became a teacher without qualifications in one of fiction's most fascinating schools for backward children. He was on the point of marrying Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde, the mother of one of his pupils, when he was thrown into jail. It had come to the notice of the vigilant police that Mrs. Beste...