Word: chaps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their own members. This isn't five star final material, I know but it simply substantiates an old prejudice of mine to the effect that collective bargaining is all right if honest men are doing the bargaining, but crooked organized labor is a menace to the honest laborer. . . . This chap also said he used to know Farley when he was getting a small weekly salary selling gypsum (hence the name, Gyp Jim Farley.) Says Farley's great on organizing. Jim also is pretty good at picking the right man. All the professors late Jim, you know, because he hasn...
...husband Curtis Dall, in Chicago, wired Mr. & Mrs. Boettiger: "Received your telegram here and am sending to you both my every good wish." Presently reached by reporters, he said: "Yes, I know Bottinger. He's a very nice chap...
...really do interest him. And misprints-especially when he has read the proofs himself-give him neuralgia and even worse afflictions. . . . Medium height, medium looks, medium clothes, somewhat reddish hair, and lively eyes. If I had seen him in a motorbus I should never have said, 'A remarkable chap...
...decide which of the subs would be easiest to catch off bases. Right in the middle of the bench sat a youth weighing upwards of 200 pounds. "Easy out," Frank decided. When the stout one was safely located on first, the Andover captain remarked, "Oh, by the way, that chap can do the 100 in 10 seconds flat...
...companions had written. Mr. Kahn examined them painstakingly, looked up and said: "You are Socialists and Communists but I don't mind as long as you are faithful to art." Back in the 1890's Banker James Stillman used to say of him: "A promising chap if he only will forget that art nonsense.'' On his office desk a friend once found a highly technical treatise, The Monetary Chaos, side by side with a 'cello concerto of a contemporary German composer...