Word: chapped
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...fellow has truly done his work through the week, I see no reason for denying him his justly deserved earnings. It gives a chap something to look forward to; he sees life in a different light, and thus the days will be more cheerful and he will develop a better and stronger Hebron spirit than in the other...
Candidate Haucke is a fine looking chap, but it would have been more appropriate to have shown Harry Woodring's picture over the caption "Governor-elect of Kansas...
...Main Street, Elmer Gantry) at a luncheon in Springfield, Mass.: "A writer will work two or three years on a book, make $40 out of it, and then plunge quickly into two or three more years' work on another book. This kind of pluck reminds me of the chap who asked a lawyer for his daughter's hand. 'You work,' said the lawyer, 'for Blank & Co. What are your prospects for promotion?' 'The very best in the whole office,' said the young man. 'My job is the lowest...
Senator James Couzens of Michigan, meeting William Jeffries Chewning Jr., his son-in-law, for the first time at lunch in Washington, told reporters: "He seems a very nice chap." Mr. & Mrs. Chewning had eloped to Baltimore (TIME...
...double somersault with his head in a sack, knows that the colleague who is to catch him would heartily like to see him dead. Somehow as he whirls, blindfold, away from his trapeze, with no net below, he has to find a way to keep the other chap from dropping him. Deft adaptation and direction by George Abbott make the little story pleasant up to this point, and the tenth-of-a-second shot of what the acrobat does next welds it into drama. Its drawbacks are Buddy Rogers' continuous ingenuousness, occasional flat lines, overacting by the "bit" characters...