Word: chipperly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bedtime Story (Paramount). In the back seat of his automobile, the Vicomte de St. Denis (Maurice Chevalier) discovers, abandoned but chipper, a male infant. With this for a beginning, anyone who has ever seen a Chevalier picture should have a fair idea of how the story will develop: how the Vicomte happily lets the baby break his watch; how he splashes water on his patient valet (Edward Everett Horton) to amuse the infant; how he turns his bachelor apartment into a day nursery and dismisses, one by one, his lady friends; how he hires a nurse (Helen Twelvetrees) and falls...
...Jobs (Amkino) differs from the run of Russian pictures in the light touch with which its director, Alexander Macharet, has embellished his small chronicle of earnest endeavor by the foreman of a construction gang. This foreman (Nicholas Okhlopkov) is chipper about his methods and proud of his efficiency until a U. S. engineer arrives to work in the same project-the building of a power dam which represents the one opened at Dnieprostroy last autumn. A rivalry arises between the two men in which the Russian, at first thoroughly worsted, struggles to catch up. His efforts, less heroic than amusing...
Runner-up to Greenleaf was the youngest player of the ten who were good enough to enter the tournament-chipper little Jimmy Caras of Wilmington, Del. Playing for the world's championship for the first time in his career, he became 22 on the day that he won one of the six matches that put him in a tie for second place with Erwin Rudolph and Andrew Ponzi. In the playoff, Caras beat Rudolph by 125-to-8. Later the same day he disposed of Ponzi, 12540-94, in a match which ended with Caras' dangerous cut-shot...
...classy closed job" they drive it so fast that even traffic policemen notice them; in trying to reach their base of operations, the Metropolitan Garage, they run down a small child (Dickie Moore) in a toy roadster. His father is the garage manager (James Gleason), his uncle is a chipper young mechanic (Edmund Lowe). The father gets killed in spectacular fashion for trying to avenge his son's mishap. Edmund Lowe, assisted by the chief automobile thief's warm-hearted mistress (Wynne Gibson), evens the score without too much difficulty...
...Muhlberg's pronouncement, moreover, should find staunch advocates in quite another direction. Take, for example, the tutor who offered a tutee three fingers of Port and uncovered forthwith a chipper reaction to the intricacies of Lady Macbeth. The domain bounded by green glass and shiny labels has obviously been too long neglected by purveyors of modern education. But the thought occurs,--imagine rising with a hangover to greet a nine o'clock on the "Amenities of Gin," and an eleven o'clock laboratory exercise in "The Art of the little finger as applied to Chartreusel...