Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...then read that because a large number of alumni agreed upon the plan of a Memorial Church in place of Appleton Chapel, we should all either support them or be silent. It would perhaps not not be irrelevant to ask what Harvard is; the alumni, who love to chat over their old college days, and who occasionally reach deep into their pockets for the University, or the undergraduates, the graduate students, and the officers, who live its daily life. We do not wish to be petty and nagging, by calling undue attention to what cannot be remedied; but we confess...
...example, their public would then be bored with another spectacle dealing with miscegenation; that after the Browning case their public will for a time be immunized against further interest in the psychopathology of an old lecher. But what is the consequence of that boredom and immunity? It means simply Chat in order to maintain their circulation the publishers of the tabloids have to look around for a new case which has seme hitherto unexplored variation of the sexual theme. . . .* This new journalism is like the procurer to an old roue who has daily to tempt him with new excitements...
Senator Borah, of Idaho, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, likes to be a severe critic as well as a maker of U. S. foreign policy. On most afternoons at 3 p.m., he holds an informal chat with the gentlemen of the press. Interjecting a little profanity and rustling the disordered documents on his desk, he discusses anything from murder trials to Nicaragua. Fortnight ago, he was vituperative concerning U. S. intervention in Nicaragua. Early last week, he was secretively dramatic, said: "I think it is well recognized that the Nicaraguan revolution is being instigated by certain persons...
Forgetful of the crowd of devotees, at last allowing the CRIMSON reporter a moment's chat the delightful lady who had once given the Theatre Guild audiences a glimpse of the Shavian Cleopatra plunged immediately into a serious discussion of the modern theatre. Not believing that college is in any sense a training school for the theatre, Miss Hayes is nevertheless pleased to find so many undergraduates interested in the world of the masque and buskin...
George might chat concerning the aces or Bond Street styles--but would Calvin be interested? Calvin, on the other hand, could discourse with some use and a great deal of knowledge about the maple sugar industry as practised in the New England States; but, then, George might be bored. The Queen would no doubt want to be remembered to Mrs. Coolidge but such courtesies require only a brief time for despated. Certainly neither gentleman will open the question of debits or foreign trade--politics are taboo in polite social circles. It is a difficult situation when two parties of such...