Word: chatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that he does not cultivate favorites does not mean that he refuses to be friendly with the orchestra. Philharmonic members often went up to his room to chat with him, on any subject from the most abstruse musicology to plain gossip about available jobs for conductors--gossip of which, incidentally, Munch strongly disapproved...
...unruffled. He greeted more acquaintances, had a friendly chat with Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft, and sampled a little bourbon & branch water. Then he headed for the office of Vice President Alben Barkley (who was traveling in the South), sat down at Barkley's desk and scribbled a note...
...haircut about four times a year: "Mr. Shaw is getting a little thin on top now, but is still remarkably thick at the sides. He is wearing his beard a little shorter than he used to, but I am never allowed to touch his eyebrows." Shaw likes to chat, and even lets the barber get a word in occasionally, but when the talk begins to bore him, he starts tapping his fingertips together. "I know the sign," says Harvey, "and I shut...
After a visit by Cowboy Cinemactor Roy Rogers, during which some 4,000 swarming youngsters almost swallowed him up before police reinforcements arrived, Denver's Mayor Quigg Newton used his weekly radio chat to apologize for City Hall's unpreparedness. Explained the mayor: "[The police] had no advance knowledge of the effect this particular movie star produces on children...
...mood of goodwill and generosity. He was busy last week bestowing little presidential favors on the Congress, in his campaign to save the Fair Deal. Many a Congressman was surprised and flattered to find the President of the United States on the telephone, calling for just a friendly chat...