Word: chaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...