Word: chap
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...readers of lending-library triangle stories will have no trouble appreciating. The enraged husband divorces his wife; years later they meet again. She is now another man's concubine and he is remarried; but love conquers, they go into a clinch, and all is forgiven. Being a decent chap, the hero keeps his new wife as well...
...fourth participant in the hell scene, an apostate from heaven who has left the "icy mansions of the sky" to embrace hellish hedonism, is Don Juan's Mozartean enemy the Statue, here transformed into a good-natured, brainless chap who "always did what it was customary for a gentleman to do." He and his modern avatar are played for less than they are worth by William Swetland, who employs the gimmicks actors use for self-important middle age with competence but no distinction...
...proven himself a good actor elsewhere. Here he is a total failure; and much of the blame must fall on director Landau. Not for nothing does Mercutio share five letters with Mercury; but there is nothing mercurial about Smithers' performance. Mercutio is an airy, sparkling, zestful, witty chap; Smithers is none of these. Too bad, for the role is so rich that it bids fair to top that of Romeo himself--wherefore Shakespeare had to kill him off on two counts...
...those Depression days, the young lawyer had to canvass ten firms before he got his first offer. When he applied for a job at the Manhattan law firm of White & Case, which numbered U.S. Steel among its clients, the official who interviewed Roger Blough noted: "First-class chap; good, clean-looking, talked intelligently. We would probably make no mistake." Irving Olds, former chairman of U.S. Steel, who moved into the company from White & Case himself, puts it another way: "Blough was one of those fellows who turn up no more than once in ten years...
Better Off B4. In London, a chap wrote to the Ministry of Health about his hearing aid, was told in reply that any future questions should refer to "IV( V) ( 1)/RHB5/19/2C/219.SR...