Word: chats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...earnest. Books are scarce, and those available often are written only in German. Lectures become more important, and classes are smaller. The professor is more informal than in his elementary classes, and the student first feels a degree of individuality when the professor learns his name and deigns to chat with him in the hall after a lecture. And since these men are, almost without exception, known and respected in the chemical world, the young man has the opportunity of hearing of and seeing the latest researches into the chemical frontier. As I've said, books grew scarce...
...March 14, 1932). Sitting down at cheap pine desks, they prepared to make Imperial Japan such an outcast as no Great Power has ever been made before. In the Assembly lobby only Hugh S. Gibson, tall, sleek U. S. Ambassador to Belgium, was seen to smile at and briefly chat with small, tense Japanese Chief Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, a diplomatic Napoleon who knew he stood at Waterloo...
...crowd cheered and clapped as the President-elect slid back down to the seat. On the bandstand sat Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak. Mr. Roosevelt beckoned him down to his car. "Hello, Tony!" "Hello, Mr. President!" After a moment's chat Mayor Cermak turned to walk away. A man rushed up to hand Mr. Roosevelt a long telegram. The President- elect started to read- Bang! Joe Zangara was standing up on a wobbly bench among the spectators firing his pistol at President-elect Roosevelt not 35 ft. away. The first shot dropped Margaret Kruis, Newark showgirl, with...
...society editor found herself secluded from the guests, at a table on the balcony. Later she declared that she had been served only one course of the dinner. The Times-Star reporter, a Rhodes scholar, left in a huff. Nevertheless all three papers obediently reported only the chit-chat of the event on their society pages next day, mentioned only the title of Sir Frederick's hour-and-a-half address...
...summoned Paul Bern to her sickroom. Mabel Normand did the same thing. He became known, jocosely, as "the little confessor of Hollywood." Platonic friendships are even more suspect in Hollywood than elsewhere. Nevertheless Paul Bern's reputation as a kindly, disinterested bachelor was such that even chit-chat writers, who had been attentive to Jean Harlow, saw no possibilities in her three-year acquaintance with Bern...