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Word: chats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Docking in Manhattan after a year in Sweden, Greta Garbo granted the first formal interview of her career to newshawks. After ten minutes of evasive chit-chat she rose to go, was cornered by deep-bosomed Cinemactress Fifi D'Orsay who gurgled "GeeGee, do you remember Fifi? I am so 'appee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

...widows, staying with their grown daughters in Rome, indulge in reminiscent chat. The brilliant, condescending one is left speechless at the news that the quiet one's envied daughter is also her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cultivated Garden | 5/4/1936 | See Source »

...only among such snorting Oldsters in Clubland but among hard young men who count on doing as well out of the next war as their fathers did out of the last optimism was rife. Small-talk and chit-chat were of the Army's new "tank-piercing rifle" and the scandal that Czechoslovakia's "Bren" machine gun is so good that British armorers are going to have to pay huge royalties in order to lease the patents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: White Paper | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

...house just off the Detroit Golf Club's fairway, a summer home at Pointe Aux Barques, Mich. In addition to his syndicate work, Rhymester Guest has for the past four years boarded a sleeper every Monday night, awakened in Chicago next morning to broadcast verse and chit-chat for Household Finance Corp. Last October he, his wife and daughter went to Hollywood where he was to make three homespun pictures for Universal. He waited around three months while the company tried to whip together a story suitable to it and him. Meantime, Universal was not only Daying Guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Guest Day | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Crocker First National is a highly personal institution. With the exception of the elder Mr. Crocker, all officials sit on an open raised platform at the end of the marble banking room. Executives wander about, chat at length, wave to customers below. Preferring a little office just off the platform to his luxurious quarters upstairs, old Mr. Crocker trots in & out, beaming through his waggling beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Sons in San Francisco | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

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