Word: sprightliest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dandified John Taylor was musing over the fashion findings turned up in the current issue of his magazine Tailor & Cutter. The sprightliest of all British trade papers, outspoken Tailor & Cutter (circ. 16,000) has been scolding the sloppy dressers of the world since the 1860s when it found that the "beauty and symmetry" of American frock coats were being "nullified through advancing the scye [i.e., armhole] beyond a point absolutely required by the form and size of the figure." In recent years it has turned its batteries of disapproval on the baggy pants of some of Britain...
...hiring & firing has shown spotty judgment. A good man like Columnist Franklin P. Adams was let go; Walter Lippmann was brought in; so was Lucius Beebe, with his ormolu prose. In the days of Alva Johnston and of Stanley Walker, the Trib's city coverage was the sprightliest in town...
Greater University. Largely because he has fought so ardently for his conception of freedom, Frank Graham has attracted to Chapel Hill one of the sprightliest, ablest faculties in the U.S., men of the caliber of Sociologist Howard Odum, Mathematician and Biographer Archibald Henderson, Playwright Paul Green. And Dr. Frank has nourished such educational plants as Albert Coates's Institute of Government (which each year trains scores of North Carolina sheriffs, tax collectors, and small fry officials); the Playmakers and the Department of Dramatic Art; a drama school rivaling Yale's and Carnegie Tech's; an outstanding university...