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...twerp, as Reader Propes should know without dictionary-thumbing, is a small, pretentious, ineffective and unpleasant person whose mode of self-expression falls between a twitter and a chirp...
Last week as seamy-faced Sir Herbert faced his annual stockholders' meeting & ordeal, up popped that spruce iron tycoon, the Earl of Dudley, to chirp: "Stockholders, I appeal to you to protect your Chairman against sniping. The sooner the Government and everyone else realizes that Vickers is a business and not a philanthropic institution the better...
...story: Ernest Kuster Jr. of Neshanic, N. J., swaddled warmly for motoring, crept off while his father was putting his car in the garage, was found unharmed and happy next morning in the corn & cabbage patch. His posse chirp: "Peekaboo...
...long-bodied, short-legged, arch-backed member of the weasel family which likes nothing better than a fight. Minks fight each other, kill and eat almost any bird, fish or non-carnivorous beast smaller than themselves, some larger. In captivity they are clean, hardy, except for an occasional chirp almost noiseless. They need one meal a day, chiefly meat and fish. They like to swim but can do without it. Almost any country place where autumn weather is brisk will do for a mink farm...
...Senator Couzens who had been staying in Washington talking into the ear of R. F. C. hurried home, lunched with Henry and Edsel Ford, sat on a platform with Henry Ford and watched 200 children of Dearborn dance and chirp to the tune of "RockaBye Baby." Their faces did not move at the lines...