Word: chatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This second recorded English comedy involves a quarrel between Dame Gurton, Jack Prudden '42, and Dame Chat, Donald Eldredge '43, over a needle lost while Gammer is mending the breeches of her servant Hodge, Dan Shook '44. Diccon, Howard Oedel '43, the villain who keeps the quarrel going, is foiled by Master Bayly, Charles Breuning '42, who finds the needle in a surprise ending after Dr. Rat, William Musgrave '42, has failed...
...First Lady rode with the Duchess from her office (she is an Assistant Director of Civilian Defense) to the White House. But the hostess did not stay for lunch. After a brief chat, she flew off to lecture in Chicago. Wrote Eleanor Roosevelt in her column next day, in her best well-bred manner: "The Duchess seemed interested in our defense setup...
During the last 20 years of Max's burgomastership, his right arm in the City Council was a physician named François van de Meulebroeck. Meulebroeck, no cock sparrow, weighed 235 pounds. His clothes bagged on him, he came of peasant stock and loved to chat in his native Flemish with the fishwives in the market place. On Max's death, Dr. Meulebroeck became Burgomaster of Brussels...
...President's May 27th Fireside Chat to the world and sixty-five million listening Americans, he did all but one of these things: 1. Declared a national emergency...
Last week Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn, chief of the Navy press bureau, visited Manhattan to chat with newsmen and offset the agitation for a separate air force. At that conference, the question was asked: what is the Navy's air policy? The answer...