Word: spryer
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Starting at 8.30 o'clock, the men and older sons left for a day of tennis and golf at the Dedham Club with a litle baseball thrown in for the spryer individuals who hanker for that sort of thing...
...below growling and grumbling and taking it easy." His coats are cut high in the neck and vent and long and full in the skirts like the coats seen in pictures of the great merchants of 40 years ago; he wears a heavy watch-chain. But Captain Dollar is spryer than the old traders who wore his kind of coat and watch-chain. He lives at San Rafael and commutes. He leaves home at seven, gets to his desk at 8:45. Crossing San Francisco Bay in the ferry he swaps stories with the deckhands. Once...