Word: chatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...walked back to the cars with the shoulder-hitching, spraddle-legged walk that is proper affectation for cavalrymen even when they are motorized. The General's O.D. sedan whirled around the bend and pulled up alongside the store porch. General Fredendall, a short, lean-flanked infantryman, stopped to chat with newsmen. "A good looking outfit," remarked one of the newsmen. The General's reddened cheeks wrinkled in a grin. "Good enough," said...
Willkie climaxed his compliment with an anecdote. "Why," said he, "when I recently called on the King of England even he said in the course of our chat' 'Mr. Willkie, would you mind going into the adjoining room to have our photograph taken...
...sinking would reverse the Galup polls. It would mean that America's entry into World War II would be determined and timed either by Adolf Hitler who could force Roosevelt's hand by indiscriminate torpedoing of U. S. shipping or else by F.D.R., himself, who could in one fireside chat bring frenzy to every American hearth. Control of her own destiny as well as a British victory is a primary goal of the United States. If ships without men are enough for England's needs, weakened as our merchant fleet and one and a half ocean navy...
...chiefs keep a jealous literary eye on one another, and the President may have feared that Churchill had a bigger gun in his pocket than Archibald MacLeish. For Washington newshawks credit the Librarian of Congress with writing much of the Third Inaugural and more than one cozy Fire side Chat. This week they scanned the two latest MacLeish prose books for fur ther stylistic evidences. There were plenty...
Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King immediately challenged Dr. McClure, demanded that he present proof of his charge or apologize. After a chat with Dr. Oscar Douglas Skelton, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. McClure backtracked, was promptly assailed as "irresponsible" by the press...