Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fullback Chip Gannon leads in the overall Varsity ground-gaining department with only two games remaining on the 1948 football schedule. The Chipper has clicked off 371 yards in 74 tries, rushing 63 times for 362 yards and completing one pass for nine yards...
Early on Sunday morning, he stopped at the Uvalde home of aging (79), still chipper John Nance Garner. "Cactus Jack" had spread a super-Texas breakfast: orange juice, mourning dove, white-winged dove,* chicken, rice and gravy, ham, bacon, scrambled eggs, biscuits, honey, preserves, pecans, coffee. Harry Truman ate some of everything in sight, said it was the biggest breakfast he had had in 40 years. Nothing was said of politics, but everybody got the idea: Jack Garner, that most conservative Southerner, was for Harry Truman...
...three things that reminded me of three other things. These were the three I found a brasaring, a page about Herodetus torn out from a Colleges Outline Sevics, and a bluebook containing a German hour exam with D written on the outside and I ask you, wasn't that Chipper Gannon something to see moving down the field? Wasn't that something pretty...
Grandma Moses (TIME, Sept. 6), chipper as ever on her 88th birthday, cut a cake decorated with scenes inspired by Grandma Moses' paintings. With a helping hand from Admirer Norman Rockwell, who also paints, after his fashion, she struck a pose that even her most critical dealer would accept as an authentic American primitive...
...Chipper Minister of Agriculture Jimmy Gardiner was the only one who stayed in the fight to the end. All through the convention his 50 henchmen worked to collar support for him, kept telling themselves that "anything could happen." From his Chateau Laurier suite Jimmy Gardiner extended western hospitality to all comers, nipped down to the lobby at strategic moments. He threw a cocktail party for the press, a luncheon for western delegates. Gardiner got 323 votes. Said he sadly: "This isn't like an ordinary election campaign where you can take your opponent apart...