Word: chats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coastal defenses. Again he had proved his tremendous popularity with the English people. With enthusiasm they cheered him as he drove slowly along the coast, solidly British in his pin-striped business suit, his high-crowned black hat. With easy friendliness he responded to the welcome, stopping often to chat and joke with the villagers and soldiers. Good-humoredly he posed for cameramen, tinkering with a U. S.-made tommy gun (see cut), chewing on a big cigar. Playfully he watched a brash eleven-year-old click his toy pistol at him, laughed...
After the President's fireside chat last May, McKay wrote to Private Secretary LeHand to advise her that the boss had committed 34 errors, including such oral slurrings as "an dinnefficiency," "mennend women," "richnd fat." McKay insists that the President must have seen his letter, since his Charlottesville speech contained only four errors or an hourly rating...
...last week a telephone in the office of a Wall Street customers man trilled. Grabbing the receiver, the customers man found an old friend anxious to chat. "Get off the wire," bridled the broker, "you're interrupting my chess game...
...Stettinius Jr., some 200 high-powered colleagues on the President's National Defense Advisory Commission. Getting these talented bigwigs down to coordinated work was in itself a big, time-taking job. Up to last fortnight, most commission spark plugs always had time for an easy hour's chat with visitors; many paced uneasily from office to office, fretting for something to do. But last week the doldrums were over. The commission was moving rapidly out of the planning stage into action...
Last winter he and Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop spent several pleasant evenings together at the cinema in Berlin. Going and coming, they would chat about the new friendly relations that had grown up between their two countries. But for the last month and a half Ambassador Shkvartsev has wished he did not know German so well, since he has had to listen to some Ribbentrop tirades that the Foreign Minister would be too cagey to put into notes...