Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press conference earlier in the week, the President was feeling chipper. In the face of gloomy news from Geneva and Dienbienphu, he was still hopefully optimistic, had nothing but complimentary words for John Foster Dulles. He was pleased to note an upturn in the nation's business, but cautioned the reporters against overoptimism...
When U.S. Davis Cup Captain Billy Talbert led his team to Australia this fall, he was feeling pretty chipper about U.S. chances. After all, he had the U.S. champion, Tony Trabert, 23, and the Wimbledon champion, Vic Seixas, 30-a nice blend of youth and experience. After his champions had been bounced out of a couple of Australian warmup tournaments, Captain Talbert stiffened his lip and switched to a "don't-count-us-out" attitude. But confident Aussie bookies decided they had seen enough, counted out the Americans as 3-1 underdogs in the Davis Cup finals with Australia...
...silver Constellation and took off for the Northwest. On the way. he managed a brief catnap in one of the plane's berths; ten hours and 2,507 miles later, when the big Connie came down through grey clouds at Boeing Field, Seattle, he looked fresh and chipper. That night at the governors' black-tie dinner. Ike unexpectedly turned up as just another guest to listen to an unimpressive speech by Humphrey on monetary policy; at 10:30 p.m. (2:30 a.m. by White House time) the President was still going strong...
Sounding more chipper than usual, New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer threw an office-warming cocktail party in the Mexico City penthouse suite of O'Dwyer, Bernstien & Correa, the law firm he is starting up with his brother Paul, New York Lawyer Oscar Bernstien, and a Mexican partner. O'Dwyer, who stayed on in Mexico (despite investigations back home of corruption in city politics) after resigning as U.S. ambassador last December, expects to visit the U.S. for about 90 days this year. "I plan to spend as much time in the United States...
Gibson, a white-haired, chipper man of 80, sat with Frederick C. Packard, associate professor of Public Speaking, and gave a rapid-fire commentary on his own readings, which will be kept at Lamont...