Word: chipperly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phenomenon. A 27-year-old Brooklynite named Sam Kaner had taken over the Experimental Film Group, and last week his Between Two Worlds was picked as the only amateur 16-mm. film to represent Britain at the August festival in Venice. Meanwhile, the awesome Oxford Union had Illinois' chipper 28-year-old Howard E. Shuman as president, and the new literary editor of the magazine Cherwell was California's Peter S. Steffens, son of Lincoln Steffens. As for the select (16 members) Writers' Club, it had five U.S. members, including President Bynum Grten of Louisiana and Geoffrey...
Never before had one man welcomed so many to a housewarming. Showing off the renovated White House to a TV audience of some ten million, President Harry Truman was dapper and chipper in a light blue double-breasted suit. He also appeared more at ease than the three network announcers (CBS's Walter Cronkite, ABC's Bryson Rash, NBC's Frank Bourg-holtzer) who took turns accompanying him on his rounds...
Harry Truman had been acting just as benevolent, kind, homespun, cheerful, charming and chipper as could be. But he had been deluged all week by a rain of dead cats as big as tigers. As he strode into his press conference, he was fairly busting to tell the world that his heart was pure and that he was true to the red, white & blue. There had, he said right off, been a lot of hooey about seizure of the press & radio. The thought of seizing them had never occurred to him, and he couldn't imagine it happening. Then...
Died. Ferenc Molnar, 74, playwright (The Swan, Liliom, The Guardsman, The Play's The Thing, and 38 others), novelist and raconteur; in Manhattan. A practicing newsman in his native Budapest for 22 years (until 1918), chipper, monocled Molnar Was sometimes called the "Hungarian Moliere." A Jew, he fled the Nazis in 1940, became a U.S. citizen. Recently, Communist-dominated Hungary labeled him a "western imperialist," banned his books, although Molnar avoided social and political comment and strove only for sophisticated entertainment. The successful playwright, he once said, must do "some swindling . . . Sometimes it is just cheating your conscience...
Laszlo Halasz felt pretty chipper about his New York City Opera Company. His fall season had just wound up in the black after seven weeks in Manhattan and four weeks on the road. Back from Chicago last week, Director Halasz asked to see his board chairman, Manhattan Lawyer Newbold Morris, about plans for the coming spring season. Chairman Morris and the board wanted to see Halasz too, but about a different matter: they gave him his choice of resigning or being fired...