Word: chipperly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chipper as ever after his travels, Geologist Willis talked of animals as well as rocks. "Never in my knowledge was I in any danger," said he. "But I took a hunter along as life insurance in certain districts . . . lions are not particularly dangerous. They are generally so well fed they don't bother you. Driving along we scared seven off their kill beside the road. All ran away except the 'old man,' who wagged his tail back and forth. But we didn't try to twist...
...that Brother George Gershwin wrote the music, Brother Ira the words. The brothers are to be heard in their friskier vein-you will discover among their tunes no such aphrodisiacs as "Do It Again" and "The Man I Love." But they make you temporarily forget such omissions with their chipper satires ("Typical Self-Made American," "Mademoiselle from New Rochelle"), and there is one spasm of trumpeting ("I've Got a Crush on You") which threatens the Negro monopoly on berserker brass...