Crossword-Solution: CHIZ 4 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

CHEESE, or "THE CHEESE," meaning that anything is pre-eminent or superior; in fact, "the thing," is supposed by many to be of gipsy origin because Gipsies use it, and it is to be found as "chiz" in Hindustani, in which language it means a thing.

Here the next day Mac told the story in the smoke-room of the King's Hotel: "Well, Chiz went and--you know his courtly style--he has his cape over his shoulders--and he salaams and says, 'Good morning, sir.' "The old man looks up and says like ice: 'You got my signal yesterday afternoon?' "'I did, sir.' "'Then why did you not turn back and come in by the other channel?' "'Sir,' says Chiz, 'may I be allowed a few words?' "'Very few.

What have you to say?' "'Sir,' says Chiz, 'I have been trained to believe that the one word a naval officer should not know is fear.

There was a long silence in the smoke-room when Mac had done, and then a voice asked: "If Chiz had gone to sea and come in by the other channel--it was almost dark at the time--he would have been too late to make the barrage, wouldn't he?" "He sure would," said Mac.

Another silence, and then another voice: "Well, poker or no poker, Chiz's dope on that damn-the-torpedo stuff isn't the worst in the world!" FLOTILLA HUMOR--ASHORE The incident reported in the previous chapter was not young Chisholm's first interview with the British admiral.