Word: chats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hardie Robbins had lain last Christmas in Washington's Walter Reed General Hospital, his hands healing from the fearful burns they suffered when the Army transport U.S.S. Bliss was torpedoed off North Africa. The President's wife, on one of her numerous hospital rounds, had stopped to chat with him. What would he like best to do, she asked, once his bandages came off? Hardie Robbins guessed he would rather play the piano than anything else-once his stiff, raw, skingrafted hands were well enough...
Once, in the old dead days of the isolationist debate, Britain's devout Lord Halifax stopped to chat with an American mother picketing his hotel with an anti-war banner. He listened gravely to her story of her nine sons, said quietly: "I, too, have sons," shook hands, walked...
Chaplain Williams looked forward to returning to shipboard. Like any good chaplain, he had never closed his door except when a caller wished. Men came in at all hours to discuss personal or family problems-or perhaps just to chat. Chaplain Williams had, to follow up many of these visits by correspondence with families or relief agencies. He kept one yeoman typing all the time. The Chaplain's activities ranged from running the Wasp's athletics, film shows, library and newspaper, to defending men in court-martial...
Lest the college further strain its tradition, Haverford-with its Quaker neighbors, Swarthmore and Bryn Mawr-last week proposed another sort of contribution to the world outside. Before Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Herbert Lehman they placed a joint proposal chat they train a staff to help in the U.S. administration and relief of occupied countries...
...Eleanor!" Then began a heavy schedule such as Eleanor Roosevelt can take. After tea at the palace, a chat with the two young Princesses, a state dinner with the Churchills and the Mountbattens, she stayed up until 2 a.m. talking with second son Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, now assigned to London. Next day the passport room at the American Embassy was cleared of desks and filing cases for a press conference. Mrs. Roosevelt called the conference to order like a ladies' club meeting, apologized for her slight deafness, charmed the 100 reporters with quick, unhesitating answers. Question : "What...