Word: chapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Robbie D, a skinny, goateed chap who looks vaguely like a molting broom, is only 20, most of the rock jockeys are pushing 30. Their natural habitat is the "jock booth," where, surrounded by stacks of 45-r.p.m. records, they suck on lemons, spray their throats, turn the treble up and the bass down, and wail. During an average three-hour program, they cram in six five-minute newscasts, twelve station breaks, 35 records and 54 commercials...
...British Steel Corporation, a nationalized giant, last week opened for business after a long and turbulent incubation period. Named to head it was a chap about whom his government boss, Minister of Power Richard Marsh, exulted: "He's first-rate. He's got enormous intelligence, breadth, which enables him to get on with unions and everybody else. He's very dynamic, and he works long hours...
...Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. But Kelly discovered that he couldn't dance in white tie and tails. "I needed more room. I had to roll up my sleeves." Thus he developed a stereotype of the cinema dancer that endured for more than a decade: an ordinary chap in sports shirt, ballooning slacks and white socks (to draw attention to his feet). His style was virile, breezy, and charged with a lusty bravura, whether he was splashing through a Technicolor rainstorm, kicking up his heels beneath the Eiffel Tower, or skittering across Manhattan stoops in his Navy whites. Though...
...played dashing walk-on parts in innumerable histories and memoirs. His eleventh, Fawn M. Brodie, has shown her skill before (Reconstructionist Thaddeus Stevens, Mormon Joseph Smith). She intrepidly explores the intrepid explorer, and in Burton the mystery is darker than any continent. He is a hard chap to map. His source may lie in the Peaks of Paranoia or the Pools of Narcissus. It is anybody's guess...
Patsy takes off, leaving a farewell note after ten pages of a Molly-Bloom-type soliloquy. Sample unthoughts about her unman: "The noise he made when he swallowed; his smelly feet!" Obviously, such a fellow as Tom deserves to be cuckolded. Patsy's choice is a chap named Ron, and together they "could knock spots off the Kinsey report...