Word: chipperly
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...beautiful, her name euphonious Isabelle, Princess of Orleans-Braganza, descendant of the Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil. For this tall, dark-eyed graceful girl the Royalist ladies of Lyons, France, had embroidered with silver palm leaves a gown of shimmering satin designed by Jean Charles Worth, most chipper of Parisian grands couturiers, who hops about and chirps...
...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...
...trick for the old reprobate and he awoke at dawn with roses in his cheeks and a curl in his blond hair. Ah, yes. Youth has come to town. Youth, strong and vigorous, is the style today. And best of all, the Vagabond is young again. And chipper, too, my lads...
...Chipper as a grey squirrel among sleek black tabby cats, dynamic Guest-of-Honor Dawes had turned up at the luncheon-tendered by the Travel Association of Great Britain & Ireland-wearing a "tropic weave" grey business suit of hard, aggressive cut. Every other guest of consequence sweltered, of course, in correctest English morning clothes. The setting was hoar, historic Vintners' Hall, built just after the Great Fire of London in 1666, sombre, immemorial citadel of England's solemn wine trade. To talk loudly or to refuse a cup of wine in such a place would be to most...