Word: chatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this very house lived old Dexter Pratt, whose popular blacksmith shop had been built next door at the corner of Story Street. Walking daily between Craigie House and Harvard Hall, Professor Longfellow Habitually stopped to chat with the genial forget tender. A strong friendship developed between the two, climaxed in 1839 when the poet immortalized smithy in a work that has been chanted by American schoolboys ever since...
...Milwaukee, Senator Gerald Nye called Mr. Roosevelt's speech "a fire-alarm chat," spoke of "the mad rush of interventionists to frighten the American people into . . . further involvement...
...minutes that Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke last week, the little grove of microphones on the desk before him were the ears of the whole world: of 65 millions of U.S. citizens, many more millions across the oceans. Never before had the metaphor of "fireside chat" seemed so inadequate...
When he was married in 1937 (to Lady Elizabeth Percy, daughter of a house whose quarrels with the Douglases and the Hamiltons were the subject of many a bloody Scottish ballad) chit-chat writers recalled tales of his eccentric invalid father and his mother, who, by report, loved animals so much that she sometimes identified herself with birds...
Plump Mrs. Dena Shelby Diehl, American Mother of 1941, had a chat with plump Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt, First U.S. Mother, came out against spanking...