He is a regular fellow," he said, affecting an American accent.
Most unusually, I found myself in accord with Quentin Letts, as well as a more regular fellow traveller such as Susannah Clapp.
They equate his sensitivity with homosexuality and his father upbraids him for not acting in a more manly way and not being "a regular fellow".
Or they're there, but they're just old wives' tales — "bubbe-meises," as he puts it, in Yiddish, presumably to show us what a regular fellow he is.
Mr. Griffith is not nearly so sure of himself as he was in "Forty Winks". "Paths to Paradise" and "A Regular Fellow," vehicles that are better suited to his style of acting.
If you're a more sober Beltway fantasy booker, the other fanciful version of the tale goes something like this: Joe Biden has built a career selling himself and Democratic Party values to regular fellow Joes.
Or they're there, but they're just old wives' tales—"bubbe-meises," as he puts it, in Yiddish, presumably to show us what a regular fellow he is.
But, he reflected, a foreigner would "have had a devil of a time in Middletown getting into homes, being a regular fellow at Rotary and the Chamber of Commerce, and generally hob-nobbing".
This German artist, known for his deadpan, roughly hacked and simply painted wood sculpture, presents numerous variations on his signature Everyman, a regular fellow in black pants and a white shirt.
The trouble with Menswear Week this year was that so much of what was on the runway was perfectly normal-looking stuff--suits and jackets and sweater that a regular fellow could wear at home or to the office without even attracting a second look--and where's the fashion in that?
"Isn't it funny the minute a girl becomes a regular fellow somebody always tries to queer it by calling her something else? Well, anybody that calls me anything but 'Marine' is going to hear from me," one of the female Marines wrote, in a letter in Hewitt's book.
