Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trick for the old reprobate and he awoke at dawn with roses in his cheeks and a curl in his blond hair. Ah, yes. Youth has come to town. Youth, strong and vigorous, is the style today. And best of all, the Vagabond is young again. And chipper, too, my lads...
...Chipper as a grey squirrel among sleek black tabby cats, dynamic Guest-of-Honor Dawes had turned up at the luncheon-tendered by the Travel Association of Great Britain & Ireland-wearing a "tropic weave" grey business suit of hard, aggressive cut. Every other guest of consequence sweltered, of course, in correctest English morning clothes. The setting was hoar, historic Vintners' Hall, built just after the Great Fire of London in 1666, sombre, immemorial citadel of England's solemn wine trade. To talk loudly or to refuse a cup of wine in such a place would be to most...
...House, Iowa's Representative Gilbert N. Haugen, one end of McNary- Haugenism, sulked pettishly. Wedded to the equalization fee, he allowed Illinois' Thomas S. Williams to guide the hearings, stamp the bill with the Williams political trademark. In the Senate, Oregon's McNary, blithe and chipper despite defeat after defeat, exuded optimism...
...Hoover received another visitor and another Cabinet rumor was dispelled. This caller was U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Dwight Whitney Morrow. He had come to Belle Isle after a rest cure at Nassau. The short, chipper Ambassador, oft-mentioned as possible Hoover Secretary of State, talked for two hours with the President-Elect. Then he all but told newsmen that Mr. Hoover preferred to keep him in Mexico, where the sedative Morrow influence has been worthy and unprecedented...
...BACHELOR FATHER-In which a surly but kind-hearted libertine rallies his bastards round him. June Walker is the most chipper chip of the old block (TIME, March...