Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...granting the use of Sanders Theater, were careful to protect it from breaches of dignity and decorum. When, after an absence from the University for twenty-four years, I first attended a concert in Sanders I was surprised to see receptacles for cigarette ashes in the Transept; a chattering throng such as fills the lobby of a theater between the acts. Harvard men of my time were brought up during a period when veterans of the Civil War, then still to be found in the Faculty, Corporation, and Board of Overseers, would have regarded smoking and chatter in the Transept...
...deny its carnal nature. Alma Winemiller (Margaret Phillips) is a minister's repressed, highfalutin daughter, passionately in love with the hell-raising son of the doctor next door. Possibly John Buchanan (nicely played by Tod Andrews) would have fallen for Alma had not her ladylike insistences, her chatter about the spiritual side of love, been too much for him. By the time Alma looks sex squarely in the face, it is too late to win John's love or even arouse his lust: he has kind of taken her words to heart, and settled down with someone else...
Through a Loophole. Crosby, no mean businessman himself, became a director of Vacuum Foods, in which he recently bought 20,000 shares of stock at lof a share. He has agreed, at an undisclosed salary, to plug the juice on a transcribed song & chatter program five days a week. (Philco Corp., which has Crosby under exclusive contract, has agreed to let him be Minute Maid's man for a daily kind word for Philco products...
Perfectionists. Near Wolfsville, Md., C. Wesley Swope Jr., out practicing his imitation of squirrel chatter, was shot and wounded by C. Wesley Swope Sr., out squirrel hunting...
Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt, who gets around, got around finally to an enterprise that immediately looked like a natural for her. Five times a week, beginning Oct. 4, she would be on the air (ABC's) with a motherly chat on almost everything. Her co-chatter: daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger. Things were being arranged so that mother could broadcast from wherever she happened to be at the moment. Her first chat would probably be from Paris, where she was going next month to attend the UN conference. Accompanying her as her secretary: grandson Curtis ("Buzz") Boettiger, now 18 and lately...