Word: chattering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baseball managers become identified with their towns in a peculiar way. Their names, intimately connected with the chatter of street corners, the casual talk on trolleys, the shouting of newsboys in the late afternoons, become part of a town's language. Their faces-wrinkled and burned by the sun, shadowed by visored caps-are part of a tradition of hot U. S. afternoons with crowds in shirtsleeves, ice cream in wilting cones and baseball players deployed, in excitingly soiled playing clothes, across the wide sweep of turf. St. Louis, especially, is a baseball town. To Sportsman's Park...
...March of Time" is vibrant and volatile, pithy and pert, with a minimum of advertising chatter. Would you force your listeners to a life of listening to tooth paste propaganda and vacuum-headed crooners...
...Chatter like this in the advertising columns of New York newspapers is one reason why Macy's sold $99,000,000 worth of goods in 1930. Dating from 1927, this particular brand of chatter helped revolutionize that vast peculiar world known as the department store business. Its heroine is a chic, young spinster named Margaret ("Marne") Fishback who last week celebrated the fifth anniversary of her Macy employment by publishing a book of poems...
...chatter advertisements were simple: Marchioness Boneless Step-in Combination $9.24 or Afore Splendid Values in Macy's Great Annual Towel Sale. Essentially the difference was that the chatter advertisements contained a consciously attained feminine informality...
Ownership of Cinemactress Chatterton was a newsquestion of interest to more than the gumchewing public of chatter-chippies because, 1) she is so far the only famed female stage-star to make an even greater success in talkies than she had previously made on the stage; 2) she has probably made more successful talkies than any other cinemactress...