Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cosima, Liszt's daughter, talked excitedly, pointed to majestic Hans Richter. He was to direct. Wagner himself was calm, sat gazing stodgily at paunched barons, at fierce mustachioed warlords, at old Emperor William I who wiggled. Emperor William's back itched. This time barons ceased their chit-chat as from the orchestra swelled forth the great chords, low symphony of Das Rhemgold.Wagner tensed-wept in ecstasy as nothing could check storms of frenzied applause. . . . One midnight, seven years later, King Ludwig rode on a black horse alone to Wahnfried, bowed in a garden over the tomb...
...Duce deigned to chat often and familiarly with correspondents, to whom he usually accords scant courtesy. They, unmollified, reported unkindly that he seemed to want very much to rub the tip of his nose, now healing under a brown coat of iodine from the wound inflicted by a mad Irishwoman (TIME, April 12). The correspondents reported that, as often as Signor Mussolini's finger drew unconsciously near the afflicted organ, his iron will caused him to drop his hand-no mean feat, as all whose noses have itched can testify...
...betrayal of a Radcliffe College girl by a Harvard student and the prominence given to the affair as the play developed clearly displeased a large proportion of the audience. Glimpses into typical student sanctums the ten and frolic of good fellowship the chat of the crew snatches of college songs the harmless flirtations of the town and campus these were the pleasant features of the piece...
...afternoon Mrs. Coolidge received Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, wife of the Speaker of the House, and her step-mother in the oval room on the second floor of the White House. After a half hour's chat, Mrs. Longworth's step-mother was shown over the building, and shook hands with several of the older employes. It was the first time that Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. had been in the White House since she left it one March morning...
...particular reason that I'm so pressed for time right now," Mr. Hopper continued, "is that besides, acting in "The Student Prince', I am also rehearsing for another play. I won't be able to chat with you very long, as I'm expecting my wife almost any minute," he added, and the reporter noticed that for the remainder of the interview the comedian kept glancing alternately out of the four sides of the car with an impatient look on his face...