Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the automakers had wangled an important last-minute concession from Washington: they can make 204,848 more cars this month before they close down. Since this is double the January quota set a month ago, it made the manufacturers feel pretty chipper. Washington did not. Only reason for any automobiles at all in January is that the automakers jiggled the priorities-allocations machinery artfully enough to pile up $213,000,000 in finished and semi-finished parts. None of these parts can be used in war work, so Washington ruefully okayed the quota boost. This will...
...Arthur Rubloff of Chicago got a present from her husband last week: A $1,500 beaver coat. Art Rubloff, ex-shoe-shine boy, now a top Chicago real-estate man, was feeling chipper. Said he: "I've done myself a nice fat deal." The "fat deal" was for a new $4,700,000 Greyhound bus terminal which will streamline the skyline of Chicago's Loop...
When the tournament was getting under way Riggs had said: "The man who wins at Sea Bright will win at Forest Hills." After it he saw no reason to change his chipper mind...
...Paris who missed him. Night in & out the indestructible little columnist organized his "death watch" for visiting Americans due to catch the boat train from the Gare St. Lazare for Cherbourg. The Sparrow saw his pal to the station, bounced off in the full dawn to do his chipper column on the night's adventures. It was a unique column -a syntax-slaughtering chronicle which editors were carefully warned not to unscramble. Said Playwright Eugene O'Neill of its author: "Why, he's the greatest writer in the world...
Sleek, Bourbon-faced John Kendrick Bangs, who died in 1922, was a humorist, a lecturer, an editor, a critic, a librettist, a politician-and successful as all six. Lillian Russell played in his chipper Gilbertian revision of The School for Scandal. As a lecturer he earned $500 a week for discreet blends of laughter and sentiment on such subjects as Salubrities (nice celebrities) I Have Met. As an editor he diapered the old Life's first years, brightened up "The Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded...