Word: chit
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...artist wait until her career is ended to write her reminiscences?" cries Maria Jeritza* on the first page of her memoirs.† She has answered the question by publishing them in midcareer. Her book is chock-full of merry notes, and will be greedily devoured by lovers of personal chit-chat about beautiful and important people. There is the story of the strong-man Graff 1, who played Ursus in the opera Quo Vadis, and had to hold the prima donna in his arms for ten minutes at a time. "But oh," wails Jeritza, "how many times did I wish...
...Personal chit-chat about beautiful and important people...
...soul, ill-understood, but known as mind; and lastly the method of arresting the migration of the mind and restoring it at length to the soul. This is a grander conception than any other ancient religion. These woodmen the Brahmins call God by three different names. "Sut," meaning being; "Chit," intelligence; "Anando," bliss or joy. Good authorities state that the Hindoo religion is dark and despairing, but this is not so. For this pessimistic idea springs not from despair but from disdain. In the spirit of divine ecstacy the Buddhist and Brahmin put aside pleasure of existence, trying...
...neither you nor your audience had ever met or heard of one. And so, instead of a handsome, charming, dazzling, fascinating creature, that bewitches with her art, I care not if it be good or bad, you show some whining, tearful, beseeching virgin, or some simple, twaddling, namby-pamby chit, whose only excuse for being good is that she don't know...