Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Warming up verbally for his new, one-year job as consultant on poetry in English to the Library of Congress, old (84) Poet Robert Frost cosily offered his chipper views on the universe: "I've waged a lover's quarrel with the world ever since I felt old enough to woo it with dash. I was stodgy only when I was young. I never dared to be radical for fear it would make me conservative when I was old. God seems to me to be something which wants us to win. In tennis. Or poetry. Or marriage...
Only the Western lines felt relatively chipper. Their dependence on high-cost passenger traffic is far smaller, and many also operate profitable sidelines. Hard hit was Santa Fe, with a January-February drop in net from $8,900,000 to $3,700,000 because of slack freight traffic in petroleum products and durable goods. But Union Pacific's January-February railroad net slipped only 1%. Also in good shape was Southern Pacific. With rising income from pipelines and trucking affiliates, S.P. expects roughly the same earnings of $27.2 million in the first half of 1958 as in the same...
There was Shortstop Pee Wee Reese, a remarkably chipper 37 despite 14 seasons of big-league ball. And there, walking out to the mound to hold off the challengers, was the granddaddy of the squad, Sal Maglie, a scowling, blue-bearded craftsman uncomfortably close...
Died. Albert Woolson, 109, last surviving Union veteran of the Civil War,* at 17 enlisted (October 1864) as a drummer in the 1st Minnesota Heavy Artillery Regiment, traveled with Union occupation forces through Tennessee but saw no action; of lung congestion; in Duluth. Chipper, cigar-smoking Woolson was senior vice commander of the once influential (peak membership in 1890: 408,489) Grand Army of the Republic, which held its last encampment...
Grim Warning. In a personal prognosis ending the 16-minute appearance, Ike remarked, "As you know, I was ill last fall. I can only say this; now the only way I know is because the doctors keep reminding me of it." Having countered another Democratic dig, chipper Candidate Eisenhower acknowledged an ovation of handclaps, shouts and ear-tingling whistles and strode...