Word: fella
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...surprise. This hitherto untested, pampered and occasionally standoffish scion of one of America's greatest fortunes turned out to be a political natural. Plunging into crowds on the sidewalks of New York, devouring whatever ethnic food was thrust into his hand, greeting everybody with a hearty "Hi ya, fella," he wowed downstate Democrats and upstate Republicans alike. Why are you doing this? he was invariably asked. "I sure don't need the money," he would reply with an infectious grin. Harriman never knew what hit him as Rockefeller won by 573,000 votes...
...caller maintained that Brill was wrong, that Hoffa was still alive. "Why, I was just down in Argentina this summer, and I was in a bar, and there was Jimmy Hoffa, belly up to the bar, sipping a beer and chatting with Adolph Hitler." Brill told the caller, "Hey, fella, I think you got a bigger story there than just Jimmy Hoffa...
...game." There is something strangely entertaining about watching Albie direct some crusty alumnus to a proper parking space and watching the alumnus try to reason with him. As I saw Albie for the first time, former baseball coach Loyal Park grabbed my arm and said. "Hey, see that fella over there. That's what happens when you coach here too long." (That's not the only thing that happens...
This nascent "it," a combination of glamour and whatever it is that makes cookies tough, belonged to a teen-age girl from New York City, born Betty Perske and metamorphosed by Hawks and Warner Bros., publicity department into Lauren Bacall. She was the kind of sex symbol a fella could swap wisecracks with and then bring home to Mother. She became an instant addition to the fantasy lives of American males when she huskily told Humphrey Bogart in To Have and Have Not, "If you want anything, just whistle...
...that? Travel 15 yards for illegal motion? Hey, that's not funny, Carm, especially when I'm paying for the call. And listen, I also found out about those referees you hired to do our game at Princeton. You know you've got a warped sense of humor, fella...