Word: chapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pilot von Orman is a quiet studious chap of 32, an Ohioan, a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science. Ballooning has made him an astute meteorologist. At the Goodyear plant in Akron, where he is employed, his advice is considered invaluable upon whether or not to go fishing...
...ladies drew near him, however, so Captain Frankau proceeded to relate a "joke" which connoisseurs present declared was both ancient, somewhat pointless and entirely offensive. In London, hearing this news and wondering how "that little writer chap" had ever been mistaken in the States for an official Conservative representative, Conservatives were irked...
...them. If the injured one sues you, it will do you no good to discharge the cub reporter. You have a libel suit on your hands. You have to prove that he is, as the case may be, "an itchy old toad," "a tool of profiteers," "a damaged-goods chap." Following is a glossary, compiled last week by Editor and Publisher, of words and phrases each one of which has figured in a libel action won by the plaintiff...
Anarchist ; bankrupt ; blackleg ; black-sheep ; brainstorm ; briber ; crook ; crooked ; damaged-goods chap ; destitute ; extreme poverty...
...match ended. Mitchell had won the Roehampton Club's prize of 200 pounds with an ease that made Britishers beam happily above their pipe-bowls in the bar that evening and lend their tongues to prophesy: "Wait till he meets the American. . . . Wait till he meets that Hagen chap...