Word: chapping
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...jocular sort of way. He was asked if he couldn't have kept his old pal John Maragon out of the White House just by telling the guards not to let him in. "I could do that, yes," he said, "but Maragon is a lovable sort of a chap. You cannot get mad at him. It is awful hard to do, at least." Maragon, he went on, would have to be "pretty well washed up, fumigated," but he thought that "most of Maragon's sins have not been with malice." As for Maragon's perfume smuggling...
Anyone looking at Alexander Foote a second time might remember him, but the chances are he wouldn't be looked at twice. A quiet chap of 44, about 5 ft. 9 in., with thinning, mouse-colored hair, he looks like the British civil servant he is; he works for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries now. But back in the '30s, he was a disgruntled salesman who had swallowed communism hook, line & sinker...
July 22 ... The young chap . . . made a famous attempt [to walk] this morning...
...only it wasn't Joe Schmoe, it was the president of the Free Enterprise Society, and he wasn't kidding. In other words, he meant it. That is to say, the fact that someone pronounced this anti-semite cliche of cliches was proof positive, to the President, that the chap was not an anti-semite. Or, to put it differently, the President was a little on the simple side...
...dancing a strange dance. Suddenly the wind fanned the flames, and the eerie light shone up into their faces. I recognized several deans and at least one House Secretary. I couldn't figure it out at the time, but looking back, I feel sure they were expunging some poor chap's name. God rest his soul...