Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it comes to the left halfback position, Dartmouth had cause to complain, for Bob Tyler, Eddie Williams, and Chipper Chapman are all injured, the first two seriously. This leaves no one, but no one, to fill in, and consequently diminishes the left side running attack by an encouraging...
Maestro Arturo Toscanini landed on the dock in Manhattan, hale and chipper after a four-month sojourn in Italy and what he announced would be his last boat trip. "I enjoyed the voyage," admitted the 82-year-old perfectionist, but it took too long: from now on "I prefer air travel...
...Matter of Health. The two statesmen did not feel as chipper as they looked. For one thing, their personal health was not good. Just back from a Swiss resort where he had been treated for a digestive ailment, Cripps took austere vegetarian meals at a small table in the ship's dining room. As a fellow sufferer under doctor's orders, Bevin dieted in his cabin-nothing but boiled fish, poultry, milk puddings, custards. Between meals they wrestled together with the bigger problem of Britain's economic health...
...press conference last week, the President was cheerful and chipper. How did he feel about the economy? Bullish...
These days, Tink no longer teaches, but refuses to think of himself as retired. He still keeps his old routine, living in his apartment at Yale's Davenport College, surrounded by his books and Boswelliana. He is oddly chipper on foggy days ("It reminds me of London"), but whatever the weather, he still takes his daily stroll across the campus, stopping to chat with the Davenport gatekeeper, and then going on to Yale's great Sterling Memorial Library where he has been keeper of rare books ever since 1931. One of his objects, already far advanced under Tink...