Word: chats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...headed William E. ("Rarin' Bill") Potter, Cleveland councilman until ousted in connection with that city's land-grant scandals in 1928-29, dropped into the City Hall within the fortnight for a chat with some of his old friends. They stood in an alcove long known ironically as "The Statesman's Window," from the highly political railleries exchanged there when voluble Mr. Potter was on the Council. Perhaps they discussed some of the 13 suits which have been started against him since 1924, or the perjury trial against him then pending, or the fact that...
...Representative Oscar De Priest, Chicago Negro, shook hands with the President, retired with Mrs. De Priest to the East Room, leaving to the other guests the option of speaking to or ignoring them. Mrs. De Priest was gratified when Secretary Lament's wife, a fellow Chicagoan, stopped to chat. Speaker Longworth came over, slapped Mr. De Priest on the back, shook his hand...
...abnormally sensitive, who abhorred fresh air, never rose till the afternoon, occasionally shaved about 7 o'clock. He was a dipsomaniac. His virtues were his amiability, his lack of personal vanity. He made and kept innumerable friends: at his studio 30 to 40 friends gathered daily to chat while he painted; often he would gather a group of 20, men, women and children, and take them with him to some watering place for weeks at a time...
...sincere and energetic attempts of Director Richard Wallace, Ruth Chatterton and a brilliant cast to make this picture command respect for its poetic content, the most interesting thing about it remains the technical perfection which it displays. Ruth Chatterton at 18 and Ruth Chatterton at 45 not only chat in the same room but walk past each other, in defiance of the old law of double exposure. Another new technical departure is a device which, more effectively than any other tried heretofore, eliminates "ground noise," i. e. the scratch and hum of projection machinery. The dialog is thrown into high...
...Agency, "will be the first Jewish ambassador in Washington since the Marquess of Reading represented England here during the World War. M. May is married to a Rothschild." He is at present Belgian Minister to Brazil. ∙Recently returned to Germany after conferences with U. S. financiers and a chat with President Hoover, famed Dr. Hjalmar Schacht expressed a most significant opinion...