Word: chapping
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...this coincidence? Certainly, said Gould-who added that it was also "providential." As for the Providence Journal's Ogden, a lean, unpoetic and law-abiding 49-year-old, he said smilingly: "Doesn't look like me at all. I'm a distinguished, handsome chap...
...Nurse (Anglo-Amalgamated; Governor Films). "Good heavens, no!" the male patient sputters shyly to the two young nurses who propose to remove his drawers. "I'll do it myself if you don't mind.'' They do mind, and with Amazonian zest they pants the poor chap and dump him in the sack. "There now," one of them remarks, "what a fuss-about such a little thing...
...mother country's problem is not so much to colonize as it is to clear out of its colonies is justifying itself in a manner intolerable to Premier Eyskens. The Premier regards Lumumba as the worst type of new nationalist leader, and Tshombe as a nice, cooperative sort of chap whose policies seem likely to keep everyone perfectly tranquil...
...focus and occasion of Dinger's social rise and moral downfall is Rex Boone, a "bozzle bonce," meaning a chap who is handicapped by intelligence, good manners and a U-type accent. Boone, also facetiously known as "Gangster" or "Gangst," is fatally crippled by having a gentle nature. Like Gunga Din or Sir Philip Sidney, of whom Dinger has vaguely heard, Boone is a "real mug" with "no future." Yet for a while, Dinger and Boone are "chinas," or buddies.* They try to assert their individuality against the khaki mass, against superior officers who are "189% swine," and against...
...glass dialogue. Shuffling identities and romantically mocking romance, Wilde's kaleidoscopic plot is intact as well, from the duplicity of the fellow who has a mythical sick friend called Bunbury and uses him as a shield against dull social obligations to the plight of the poor chap whose origins are unknown because he was found in a Gladstone bag in Victoria Station. Now and then guilty of unfortunate lapses of taste, the lyrics for the most part graft smoothly onto the play, as in a superbly haughty number called A Handbag Is Not a Proper Mother...