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...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...
...Dark House (Universal). The British are a chipper, extraverted people, given to good table manners, 'God Save The King' and gobbling up puddings such as 'bubble & squeak...
...bout was no natural for Petrolle: he normally fights at 140 lb., had to take off eight pounds in eleven days to make the limit (135 lb.). Canzoneri soon discovered the result. Cool and chipper, an 8-to-5 favorite, he brushed away Petrolle's usually lethal right, danced briskly around the ring peppering quick little punches at Petrolle's head. As Petrolle weakened with fatigue, Canzoneri exhibited bravado. He dropped his hands and stuck out his jaw, moving it just in time to make his opponent miss. Petrolle won the seventh round and shook Canzoneri with...
...guess who did it. Presently it becomes more difficult. A lugubrious old man might have done it because Jenny Wren caused his son to commit suicide. A gaunt spinster (Pauline Frederick) might have done it because her nephew wants to marry Jenny Wren's sister. So might a chipper crook (Ricardo Cortez), who gobbles peppermints and seems much interested in Jenny Wren's mail. Instead, it is the crook who solves the mystery, while a thunderstorm rages outside and a phosphorescent death mask floats about between the trees. Good sequences: flashback to reveal what the suspects say when...
...Well and chipper, the crew of the Curlew explained their difficulties. Captain Nat Blum, like his sailors, had never been out of sight of land before the race. Navigator Rosenberg had never taken a sight with a sextant and his instrument, a borrowed one, was improperly adjusted. Said Captain Blum: "We got off our course directly the race started and when we tried to put back, the wind shifted. This delayed us ... but we always knew where we were." One of the Curlew's crew, Attorney Benjamin Theeman, returned home by train. The others, after ramming and smashing...