Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Staff Sergeant Skeezix Allison Wallet, 24, foundling son of Walt Wallet, Frank O. King's long-loved (26 years) comic-strip character; and Nina Clock Wallet, 23: their first child, a son (Walt's first grandchild); in Gasoline Alley. Name: "Chipper." Weight...
Some 50 guests, including Fala,* crowded into the little red-carpeted, basement Oval Room where Franklin Roosevelt has made many a radio fireside chat during the past eleven years. At 10 p.m. the announcers made their introductions, and nodded at Candidate Roosevelt. The President, apparently chipper despite his continuing head cold, then began his second political speech of the 1944 campaign...
Major General Claire Chennault, easing along a Chinese dance floor, ranked no higher than any man with a captivating partner, when a chipper, dare-devil-named corporal Christopher Colombo...
Family Troubles. Editor and author of the Atlantic's series is Charles L. Webster's son, Mark Twain's grandnephew, corncob-pipe-smoking Samuel (for Clemens) Charles (for his father) Webster of Manhattan. His helper was his tiny, chipper, 91-year-old mother, Sam Clemens' niece and his favorite youngster during his Mississippi pilot days. Mrs. Webster saved the 500-odd letters through the years -literally in an attic trunk...
...When chipper, billiards-playing Graham Creighton Patterson* stepped in to run the Farm Journal in 1935 (backed by the copious cash of arch-Republicans Joseph and Howard Pew), its circulation was clotted at 1,100.000, its size at 16 to 18 pages. Its bookkeeping was done in red. This month's 72-page Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife (wed in 1939) went to more than 2,700,000 subscribers, and Patterson chalked his cue for a long reverse shot. Success had frozen his cue ball fast against the paper shortage...