Word: chipper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London's Sunday Times (and the Observer), and in no time at all the house was sold, lock, stock and faded, flyblown decor. By couching his property description in readably deprecating prose, a chipper British real estate agent named Roy Brooks at 46 has become London's most effective real estate salesman...
...years ago, a flint-chipper named Og, whose wife had unsympathetically thrown his collection of tiger teeth out of the cave, began giving one tiger tooth to anybody who bought two of his flints for ten clams. Soon Og found that he was selling flints by the bushel and running so low on tiger teeth that he had to get more-even if it meant hunting tigers. This was a nuisance and expensive; to cover the cost, he raised the price of his flints to 15 clams a pair. And to his astonishment, nobody seemed to care; they went right...
...retirement of "our 'Erb" from the treasureship of London's Labor Party organization, which he had served almost from its founding 48 years before. Stepping down partly to give someone else a turn and partly because his wife was wanting "more of him at home," the chipper former chief deputy to Clement Attlee was not without one final exhortation. "Love London." began the bobby's son who so fervently has. "Be meticulously upright, bold, sensible and socialist. Remember, we exist not to be masters of London nor even of our country. We exist to serve." Harvard University...
...delegates to Brighton did their best to look bright and chipper as new Tories should, but they must have sensed that something was lacking from the top. The Prime Minister has reshuffled his cabinet, but he remains deliberately inscrutable to a party that wants to win a general election, and to a Government that must settle the unfamiliar and uncomfortable question of the Common Market. Uneasy and uncertain as it is, the new Conservative team must wait for Mr. Macmillan to make up his mind...
...other hand, by sly understatement, his chipper account poked fun at officious "bashi-bazouks" like the camp Kommandant, and a corporal whose mania for counting and recounting the prisoners prompted one inmate to swear: "After this war is over. I am going to buy a German soldier and keep him in the garden and count him six times a day." Concluded Plum: "I would say that a prison is all right for a visit, but I wouldn't live there if you gave it to me." Bertie Wooster could hardly have put it better after a night...