Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ancestor killed in the Revolution, was especially upset. She was president of the Ladies Aid Society and there the talk boiled up hottest. Gentle, white-haired Rector Livingston heard about it, of course, but he had been a pastor too long to pay much attention to the chatter of womenfolk. Besides, he had plenty of stanch supporters, and he loved his prim, 205-year-old Caroline Episcopal Church, with the mark of British bullets on its belfry. That was how it began, but it ended last week in court. Rector Livingston, 70, was suing Miss Smith...
...Saturday Jan. 15, 1916, lady-like chatter rang through the Victorian mansion at No. 856 Fifth Avenue as 24 players sat down to bridge. Over the six tables presided a plump, erect matron. When the game was over she rose, announced the prizes: one share of U. S. Steel preferred for each table. Steel preferred was $117 a share that day. The prizes totaled...
...bestow such compliments before the performance is not mere idle chatter. The purpose is to indicate what inexhaustible possibilities there are for a large and skillfully trained mixed chorus. For the last fifteen years the Harvard Glee Club under Dr. Davison has made its reputation in this country and in Europe not only as a chorus of high calibre, but as a disseminator of good music. Through the combined efforts of Dr. Davison, Thomas Whitney Surette, and the Concord School of Music, the gospel has successfully been spread until it is now universally accepted. The work of the Glee Club...
...Anon., I take it, is a faithful reader of the "Saturday Review," perhaps even that legendary figure, the Oldest Living Subscriber. From his letter, one would never think that he regularly perused those delightful chatter columns of Christopher Morley and P. Quercus which are distinguished features of the "Review." For he seems to be one of those unfortunate souls that are devoid of the sense of humor that characterizes the work of Messrs. Morley and Quercus...
...Japan Army and Navy men talked (and often wrote) of almost nothing else but the "Inevitability of a Russo-Japanese War." Their militant chatter reached such a pitch last week that War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi was moved to step in and soft-pedal it. In his first interview since his elevation to the Cabinet as successor to the sword-rattling Araki, General Hayashi kept a straight face while he told the Associated Press...