Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President and the newsman, with the Secret Service men, walked briskly west on Pennsylvania Avenue to 17th Street N.W., cut up G Street to 18th Street, and turned north. Harry Truman, in a blue double-breasted suit, was chipper and chatty. He said he felt fine-all right in every way. Just after Christmas his weight had shot up 15 Ibs. to 175, but he had got it down 5 Ibs. and now he was holding it there pretty steadily. He was not dieting; he was just not eating as much...
Next day it rained. But more than 100 of the faithful journeyed to the islands, found chipper Harry Truman in a brown leather bushjacket (he calls it his "zoot" suit). The party centered around him at the piano. He played some Chopin, and accompanied gusty renditions of the inevitable How Dry I Am and Sweet Adeline. At dark the fun broke up. The President was buttonholed by newsmen at the White House back door. He had one newsmaking thing to say: he alone would make the decision about the atomic bomb secret (see INTERNATIONAL). Had the President done himself some...
Last year aging Mrs. Clara Driscoll, still addicted to cosmetics and long skirts and still chipper, won her last political fight. She stomped into the Nueces County Democratic convention, acidly scolded it out of joining the Texas revolt against...
Forest ("Nubbins") Hoffman, the small boy in Cheyenne, Wyo. who got a month-early Christmas party last year when everyone thought he was dying, looked forward to his fourth birthday July ii. Now fit, chipper and feeling like a new boy, six months after a life-saving operation, he pedalled around for news photographers on his velocipede (see cut), one of his houseful of Christmas presents from sympathetic newspaper readers...
Family Man. Jolly and chipper, and carrying a bamboo cane, the President's mother thoroughly enjoyed her first flight. At the capital, she was greeted by her son and granddaughter, then stepped into a swarm of cameramen. A little flustered at first, she quickly regained composure, said to the President: "Oh, fiddlesticks. If I'd known that, I wouldn't have come...