Word: chitchat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grain merchant named Nelson B. Updike, who merged it with the evening Omaha Daily News. Mr. Updike bought the Bee because he had an idea, stillborn, that he could send John Joseph Pershing to the White House. Another idea, successful, was to import Arthur Brisbane's daily chitchat...
Politics, the Press, Finance." Then there is Venetia, the daughter of Finance; Raphael, the son of the Press, and Savil, the writer, whose resemblance to Author Arlen will provoke chitchat...
...Coolidge heard about it-the conversation of His Majesty T. Goesti Bagoes Djelantik, Rajah of Karang Asem on the Island of Bali in the Dutch East Indies, and one Joseph Patterson, stock broker and writer, who returned home last week and got into the headlines with this piquant chitchat: The Rajah: "Where did you come from?" Mr. Patterson: "From America." The Rajah: "Is that further away than Singapore?" Mr. Patterson: "Much further." The Rajah, producing a newspaper photograph of President Coolidge and Queen Marie of Rumania: "I know. I have a picture of your Rajah. Is this his favorite wife...
Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine recently left Southampton's white-flanneled sands for Emporia, Kan. At Long Island's social capital Mr. Jardine had learned to chitchat, and last week he attended a garden party of some 60 prairie editors who quizzed him on baptism and similar subjects. No religio-infantile authority, Mr. Jardine shifted the conversation to a region where he felt at home-farming, and even then delivered no farm relief oration, but, on the contrary, brought agriculture down to a game as simple as parchesi...
That old lady?did she know the chitchat, the gibble-gabble, the pussy-words of Manhattan sophisticates, the wisecracks sprung in the hashhouses of 44th Street, the nicknames of semi-celebrities? That poor old lady. It will not be for the old lady in Dubuque. That was a good sentence. The editors put it in their circular. They put it in letters to possible subscribers, they wrote it large on cards which they tacked up about the town...