Word: chaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a new and worthy child. Are we, then, to turn an old Eli trick and "leave a bastard son on the stops of Durfy"? Or are we to befriend and act as a father to this little fellow who is, after all, such a likeable and deserving chap...
...splendid audiences at the Universities, sometimes turning hundreds away. Daniel Frohman came to see us in the Westchester County Recreation centre. You know his brother Charles, the chap who went down on the Titanic got me to first come to this country way back in 1906." Then suddenly, "See that girl there. . . She's Edith Mayor, neice of Miss Edythe Wynne Mathison. We starred her in "Everyman." He also pointed out Frederic Sargent, Russell Thorndike and Miss Llewellyn...
Interesting among ancient traditions of the sheet is the "rubber da rag" (read the paper) anecdote. The story is told of a new man in the ad alley, a chap who was assigned the job of setting up an ad for one of Butte's big department stores. This man had begun his task when it occurred to him that perhaps the store in question employed individual makeup and type. He asked the boss of the ad alley about it. The boss, a squat and blue-jowled individual, spat on the floor, observed "Jeest...
...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...