Word: chit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nichols, careless in the matter of quotation marks, felt that what the President actually said about art required an Oxonian polish. In any case, this unparalleled abuse of an interviewer's privilege did not prevent Doubleday Doran & Co. from inviting Mr. Nichols to edit their American Sketch (society chit-chat). New here, Mr. Nichols has doubtless been informed that it is not customary in the U. S. to exploit the President...
Readers wondered who would succeed Publisher Duval, whether they might expect chit-chat or culture...
Died. H. Gordon Duval, 35, publisher of The Club-Fellow (social chit-chat weekly); in Manhattan
Marriage on Approval. A year ago the same play, except for minor details, was offered under the simple title Trial Marriage. As it was then, it is now, a too wordy, too self-serious story .of a wistful but determined chit who refused to marry the man she loved until she had tried living with him, and who then, through the machinations of a reedy villain, goes to jail for a shooting instead of to church for a wedding. Sadder and less idiotic, she gets out in time for the last act. The action of the play is ample...
...come to pass-the growing up of Miss Nathalia Crane. Her songs are still those of a little Brooklyn girl for whom hydrants must be gnomes and subway trains coffin worms. Nor has anyone yet dismally and satisfactorily explained the marvelous process by which a slender chit-she is only 13 now- became possessed of the divine afflatus, plus a vocabulary that would give nightmares to a lexicographer...