Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Makes no difference what's the matter, We won't let our store teeth chatter...
...characters are insignificant puppets; the situations are replete with refined slapstick and flippant chatter just one level above that of a mediocre burlesque show, and Noel Coward's personality remains aloof in the background. He is there; for he is, without any doubt, a superior showman who knows the mood of the public. As a movie, "Private Lives" is one of the few that will keep your interest to the end. The photography is particularly skillful in the Alps scenes, and is never slipshod. Robert Montgomery and Norma Shearer are convincing lunatics, boisterously funny...
Tribune spotted ajiaco criollo, amid the babble of political chatter that filled Havana, as the word most descriptive of the island's whole situation. Havana simmered with several hundred master statesmen, scarcely two alike after eight years of pulverizing tyranny. Into the simmering pot, in front of the Presidential Palace, peered Cuba's hungry but critical citizens. They looked in vain for a master cook. Only one ingredient in the pot suited every taste and that was proud resistance to U. S. intervention. The Sergeants. There were the Army's non-commissioned officers, on a spree. They...
...somewhere-I hope we do-but I'm no bleating optimist any more!" "We Cannot Participate!" With the chief Continental delegates mostly back on the Continent (where Germany's blunt Dr. Hjalmar Schacht said last week that the motto of future conferences ought to be "No More Chatter!") a real issue developed in London between the Mother Country and her Dominions...
Trend. Cities like Buffalo are accustomed to four distinct types of local publications: daily newspapers for national and local news; country-clubby monthlies for social chatter; chamber-of-commercy magazines to brag about the city and back-pat its bigwigs; and, after the success of The New Yorker, a rash of local smart-charts broke out, flourished briefly, faded away. Buffalo last week was the scene of a new kind of small-city journalistic enterprise. Out came a four-page tabloid to review and, where possible, go behind the week's local news, develop news personalities. It was called...