Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time-honored Greek tradition of mixing business with bloodlines, overseers of the Onassis empire had selected Andreadis as a good prospect, say friends of the family. Artemis Garofalidou, Ari's sister and Christina's closest confidante, set up the first meeting between the two-a chat over coffee at the Athens Hilton, a hotel owned by the Andreadis family. "The girls in my past? They were young things," pronounced Alexander four weeks later. "Christina is a woman, a serious woman. Ours is a serious marriage...
...entertainments open to anyone who appeared in respectable clothes: the President's "levees," for men only, every Tuesday from 3 to 4; and Martha's tea parties, for men and women, on Friday evenings. Washington thus described his levees: "Gentlemen, often in great numbers, come and go, chat with each other and act as they please. A porter shows them into the room, and they retire from it when they please and without ceremony." At their entrance, Washington saluted each, "and as many as I can talk to I do." At the tea parties, he spoke to every...
...makes Crooks a little uncomfortable. As a man gets older he has more license to do that sort of thing but it still doesn't seem quite right. So Crooks is glad to see Martha Armstrong Gray, the director of the Summer School's dance program, come in to chat, it gives him a chance to think about something else...
...person, almost introverted onstage." Also he was "quite porky. In a caftan he looked like a myopic nun." Still young Reg, unable "to chat it up with the girls," did what he could to change his unprepossessing image. He unsuccessfully tried amphetamines to cure his weight problem. He borrowed the Christian names of Saxophonist Elton Dean and Leader John Baldry to create a new stage name for himself. Then he went off to London, where he found work as an errand boy at a music company...
...lion, though not the same lion." "The Whore of Mensa" wittily plays with the idea of a brothel for intellectual entertainment. The madam has a master's degree in comparative literature; for a price, a curvaceous Vassar student can be had for an hour's chat about Herman Melville; "symbolism is extra...