Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When U. S. Army & Navy officers talk shop nowadays, they chatter less about Roosevelt Rearmament than about a recent, historic shift from professional to civilian control of military affairs (TIME, Dec. 19). From Commander in Chief Franklin Roosevelt down, civilian authorities now are telling the admirals and generals what to do, sometimes are even telling them...
Almost as common an effect is a marked tendency to garrulousness, not quite in the ordinary manic form of a rush of speech with a flight of ideas, but rather like the sprightly chatter of the good conversationalist who knows he is good...
Sought out by Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, onetime writer of women's chatter for the New York World-Telegram and now a columnist for the New York Post, Lady Astor proceeded to whip out a flat denunciation of Adolf Hitler. "I'm so much against him [Hitler]," cried the spectacular Virginia lady who 'has sat in the House of Commons since 1919, "that I wouldn't think of accepting an invitation to meet him if one were offered me. I loathe dictators and all they stand for. The most horrible thing Hitler has done is to warp...
...together in a series of scenes which include chunks of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, introduce canny Impresario D'Oyly Carte, and evoke the artistic life of Victorian London. To garnish his text, Allvine has cribbed all the celebrated remarks of the day, making his chatter sound at times like a page from Bartlett's Quotations: Bernard Shaw pipes up with ''Some day Wagner will rank with Shakespeare and Shaw," Queen Victoria freezes her guests with "We are not amused," Whistler snubs Wilde with "You will, Oscar, you will." A bright, attractive Gilbert...
...Paul Cezanne was published and accepted almost at once as a definitive biography. Painstaking and fully documented, it presented Cezanne as a great intuitive inventor in the art of painting; and its sympathetic account of the artist's crotchety life cleared the air of much second-rate chatter. Biographer Mack's new subject is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa,* who died of drink and exhaustion in 1901, aged 36, the greatest French master of line between Daumier and Picasso...