Word: chumly
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...Fred (to chum): "I dreamt about you last night...
...caskets were landed from a navy ship, flags flew at half-staff. Street lamps were draped in black. Along the route, as the bones of the San Martins were borne to the cathedral, thousands of schoolchildren lined the curbs. Whispered one to a neighbor: "Did you hear, pibe [chum], that next year they are going to bring back his horse...
...this meeting into an executive session and elect your representatives now." But Murphy shouted him down. There'd be no election, he cried, until tomorrow, "and we'll let the ship lie there tonight." The pimply-faced steward looked at the tall ship and cried gleefully: "Well, chum, you've 'ad it." The men laughed...
...private pool, promptly stripped to the buff and dove in. When she complained to a senior officer, he told her that the boys thought they were following the local custom. In Edinburgh, like their elder brothers in wartime, they had been greeted by street urchins calling "Any gum, chum?" Then came London...
...London last week, a considerable fraction of the population rose from warm beds and sat shivering beside wirelesses to hear the 7 a.m. news report of the Battle of Adelaide. A blue-faced cabby with frosted eyebrows said to a chum: "We didn't ought to have sent them." In a swank Pall Mall club, an elderly gentle man turned from the ticker mumbling: "Damn bad luck." All England knew and feared the name of Australia's great batsman, a wiry stockbroker, Don Bradman. With his help, last week, the Australian eleven held the British to a draw...