Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Presidential table-chat was the story appearing in Collier's for Jan. 26. This told of an unnamed surgeon whose possessions were taken by the U. S. in 1917 when the government conducted a general seizure of German property. For ten years the surgeon has awaited the return of one piece of property. He prizes it highly. It is the appendix of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Bottled, of course...
...Presidential table-chat was the story appearing in Collier's for Jan. 26. This told of an unnamed surgeon whose possessions were taken by the U. S. in 1917 when the govern-ment conducted a general seizure of German property. For ten years the surgeon has awaited the return of one piece of property. He prizes it highly. It is the appendix of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Bottled, of course...
...Maurrant pokes her head out of a second-story window. There is talk of the heat and Mrs. Jones, on the porch, asks Mrs. Maurrant to come down and have a chat. ''Well, maybe I will," says Mrs. Maurrant. She withdraws from the window frame and while she is coming downstairs Mrs. Jones asks Mrs. Fiorentino if it isn't awful, the way Mrs. Maurrant is carrying on with that Sankey, who collects money for the Borden milk people. Mrs. Maurrant appears and there is banal chatter. Mr. (Third Floor) Buchanan, whose wife is in laboring pains, says...
...Navy chief yeoman's cap, the chief yeoman of U. S. foreign trade and diplomacy whiled away the cruising days with constitutionals around the deck, reading detective stories, reclining on a cabin lounge to chat with the 20 newsmen aboard, observing naval mysteries such as range-finding and fire-control in the gun turrets, and in dictating memoranda to several stenographers. Mrs. Hoover sat on deck, knitting...
...careless in the matter of quotation marks, felt that what the President actually said about art required an Oxonian polish. In any case, this unparalleled abuse of an interviewer's privilege did not prevent Doubleday Doran & Co. from inviting Mr. Nichols to edit their American Sketch (society chit-chat). New here, Mr. Nichols has doubtless been informed that it is not customary in the U. S. to exploit the President...