regular fellow

Forster shrewdly made his hero, Maurice, an utterly regular fellow, neither brilliant nor dull, a perfect product of his time and place except for his sexual orientation.

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”.

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.

As I point out in my new book, "Celebrity in Chief: A History of the Presidents and the Culture of Stardom,"  associating with popular athletes and teams enhances a president's luster and gives him cred with fans as a regular fellow, and enables him to link himself with pop culture.

Carter Howard, who knew Bricker from childhood camp-outs in Winnetka and later served on the District 36 school board, said he remembered Bricker as a “relaxed, regular fellow who always seemed fair and straight-up.”