Word: fellowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hesitated to prosecute (last year only 424 criminal actions were filed against Federal tax delinquents). The problem was, the case had to be airtight against the erring taxpayer; for one thing, judges and juries were apt to sympathize with the fellow, feeling that after he had paid up what he owed, and a 50% additional penalty for fraud, he had suffered enough. But the garden variety of sinners were informed of what the Internal Revenue Bureau grandly calls "innocent mistakes" in such grating terms that almost all broke into a heavy sweat and laid the money on the line...
Harry Cain wanted to attack the appointment of a fellow Washingtonian, Truman Crony Mon C. Wallgren, as chairman of the vital National Security Resources Board. Cain talked for more than six hours, scratching under his arms, hitching at his trousers, sipping milk and raising one foot after the other so that his male secretary could change his shoes. Mrs. Cain, who has filed a suit for divorce, sat in the gallery the whole time, watching her husband admiringly...
...steady flow of Saturday night informal dances. Adams was one of the first Houses to pack its common room with television spectators, and the first to campaign for an automatic launderer in the basement. It has a complete darkroom, harbors a wobbly ping-pong table, and has a fellow in the lobby who sells magazines, candy...
Munro isn't worried about the wind of the cold, however. The average lacrosse player is a pretty tough baby; a few gusts of March wind can scarcely affect someone who spends several hours a day enthusiastically clubbing fellow men with a four to six foot long stave, and being clubbed in return...
...entirely possible to live in Winthrop for three years without ever speaking to the fellow in the room across the hall. This makes it difficult, sometimes, to borrow things like corkscrews, and has been interpreted by other Houses as a dangerously anti-social condition. Puritans regard it as a healthy, live-and-let-live attitude, and seem to prefer it to the more closely integrated House life elsewhere...