Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still keeps his old routine, living in his apartment at Yale's Davenport College, surrounded by his books and Boswelliana. He is oddly chipper on foggy days ("It reminds me of London"), but whatever the weather, he still takes his daily stroll across the campus, stopping to chat with the Davenport gatekeeper, and then going on to Yale's great Sterling Memorial Library where he has been keeper of rare books ever since 1931. One of his objects, already far advanced under Tink's supervision: to give Yale's library the finest collection of Johnson...
What entertaining they do is largely confined to aviation people or representatives of nations with which Pan American has air agreements. Adaptable Mrs. Trippe has had to learn to chat intelligently about everything from "chosen instruments" to wing loadings. She learned from the start the importance of the air. On their wedding day in June 1928, while friends gathered on Long Island for the ceremony, Trippe put in a brisk morning's work at the office. He barely made it on time. Said a friend: "Juan's idea of relaxing is to sit up till 2 a.m. talking...
...affable to bores." Each official party has important guests "devoid of social graces and who stand around in dreary isolation." Nothing, Cheke affirms, is worse than "dreary individuals standing in gloomy and solitary silence." To save the reception England expects young John Bull to find his tongue and chat...
...Louis Stephen St. Laurent, Prime Minister of Canada, paid his first state visit to Washington last week. Actually, despite his striped pants, stiff collar and courtly manners, he was just like an old friend dropping in for a chat. There was no state dinner: Good Neighbor St. Laurent was entertained at a stag luncheon in Blair House with 14 other guests-mostly top-drawer U.S. officials...
LaCroix made his remarks in an informal chat with one of your reporters and apparently did not realize they would be printed. Since the NSA is only in charge of national D.P. planning, and not the administration of the project at Harvard, it is surprising that the CRIMSON did not seek verification of the story from the International Activities Committee of the Student Council, which is in charge of local D.P. planning...