Word: chats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First thing the diva did when she came to town for her recital last fortnight was to call John's house to invite him and his mother to lunch with her at the Seneca Hotel. That afternoon they had a long chat. Among other things Mme Flagstad said that she had finally decided to take a chance on going back this April to Europe at war, to Norway, where she hoped to find some place to live quietly for a time with her 20-year-old daughter and stepsons. While her accompanist Edwin McArthur was busy denying to newspapermen...
...sort of debate between Mrs. Bulkley and me, which never occurred. As far as I know, Mrs. Bulkley made no speeches during the campaign, and, as a matter of fact, quite often, when our husbands were debating, Mrs. Bulkley and I indulged in a friendly and sympathetic chat as from one candidate's wife to another. I feel that I should put the record straight for Mrs. Bulkley...
...actions of everyone and the air of gloom she had found in Paris since her arrival. She said our appearance of fresh, healthy, crusading youth impressed her so much that she wanted to tell us so. Were we both mortified and proud! After a short chat she left, stating she was bound for England. Later I wrote to her from the front and received several very interesting and highly treasured letters...
...professional anthropologists and race historians-had even heard of the Szeklers before last week. But according to Hungarian papers, these poor people, who are of purest Magyar stock, were taking a pitiful mauling from the barbaric Rumanians. Thirty-six Szekler boys, whose innocent pleasure it was to gather and chat studiously about Hungarian arts and literature, were rounded up and "put through the third degree by the Rumanian police and mistreated in such a cruel way that some of them were left unconscious." Many others were arrested and mistreated for nothing more than possessing arms. Everyone in Central Europe, protested...
...enjoying my informal position in the University," Held commented. "The boys seem to think of me as a Father Confessor. They come down and chat not only about drawing, sculpting, horse-racing, and ping-pong, but one fellow the other day even began to talk over his frustrated sex life with...