Word: chipperly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Infallibly dapper, invariably chipper, insistently funny, Mayor James John Walker of New York City completed the legend of insouciance abroad (TIME, Aug. 29 et seq.) and sailed from France for the U. S., with Mrs. Walker. But before he left he- ¶ Addressed the American Legion in Paris. "I am authorized by law and by chance," he said, "to bring you the felicitations of the people of New York and to carry across the Atlantic their heart throbs that they may mingle with you in spirit. I want you to feel that your purposes will be their purposes...
...angle and exhibited a burst of U. S. energy. He went through a mock arrest, telling Sir John Knill, the acting Lord Mayor, "It's the sword makes me own up, my Lord." He dashed to luncheons, teas, handshakings; tried out the Lord Mayor's chair, a chipper urchin among greybeards; rattled questions about London slums and busses; missed his dinner; clapped at the theatre; consoled Mrs. Walker for losing her largest trunk. He startled his Manhattan subordinates by calling up on the radiophone to say, "Hello, how is everybody over there?" Mrs. Walker took her turn...
Doran-Farrar. The Bookman since 1921 has been amiable, even pollyannaish. Ladies' literary clubs like it. Mr. Doran, long a friend to young novelists, found a kindly young disciple in Editor Farrar, redheaded, chipper, who could gently pat the backs of hopeful literati. To many, Critic Farrar is a promising second edition of Critic William Lyon Phelps. Mr. Farrar will continue to function as editorial director of the Doran book business, will also contribute to the Rascoefied Bookman "a department somewhat like Dr. Phelps's in Scribner's-only different...
While waiting for the board of director to asemble on the morrow, Mr. Birtwhistle--his wife always called him dear Godwin--did a bit of drinking, went with the boys to some leg shows, and began to feel young and chipper as a colt...
...While Chipper Skaylem's abilities are surely not insignificant, Subscriber Peffers errs in believing Chipper Skavlem to be "the only white man" to have discovered and imitated the Indian manufacturing process. At least one other such white man exists?Chipper Joseph A. Barbieri of Pasadena, Cal., who can reduce stone nodules to thin blades, strike a spall from a brittle nucleus, by freehand percussion. (See Art and Archaeology...