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Word: chipper (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some of the Freshmen who arrived here last week had to undergo the hazing process at the hands of the Sophomores. There has been more hazing done here this year than for several years past, but it does not take on a very violent form. One chipper New Haven youth who is inclined to be something of a dude, and who is just entering upon his college career, was given a pretty sharp twirl by a party of Sophomores last Tuesday evening. They captured him with his bicycle suit on, took him around to a Broadway saloon and made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletics at Yale. | 9/30/1887 | See Source »

...corner, and bestowed in my coat-pocket. Before I left that evening she had appointed the day for our marriage, and I had made an eternal enemy of Lardy. As we marmaladed out to Cambridge that evening, he wouldn't say a word to me. His eye, usually so chipper, wore a dark and sullen look that meant - revenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

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