Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While waiting for the board of director to asemble on the morrow, Mr. Birtwhistle--his wife always called him dear Godwin--did a bit of drinking, went with the boys to some leg shows, and began to feel young and chipper as a colt...
...While Chipper Skaylem's abilities are surely not insignificant, Subscriber Peffers errs in believing Chipper Skavlem to be "the only white man" to have discovered and imitated the Indian manufacturing process. At least one other such white man exists?Chipper Joseph A. Barbieri of Pasadena, Cal., who can reduce stone nodules to thin blades, strike a spall from a brittle nucleus, by freehand percussion. (See Art and Archaeology...
...months ago smart pressmen crowded on shipboard about returning Dr. Lorenz. He looked chipper and gay. But the back-fence gossipers noted not his appearance. They wanted some slick phrase on which they could hang a story. Dr. Lorenz gave it to them: "Enjoy all vices in moderation." Fine! The phrase could be wrung into a salacious connotation. Far down in the story one could explain that the doctor meant that folk should work, play, sleep in moderation. The pressmen darted to their writing machines...
...exactly a pirate brig, despite its swashbuckling title. But a chipper little schooner with plenty of saltwater stories aboard, a ballast of saline humor and a cargo of vocabularies like smelted slag...