Word: chitchatted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home, "gave myself a dose of castor oil, took a cold bath-and now I wouldn't even mind doing another play." When the 37-year-old Chekhov collapsed from a tuberculous attack in 1897, the great Tolstoy stormed past the nurses to soothe the patient with bedside chitchat, but stayed on to argue that a work of art only fulfilled its function if an uneducated peasant could understand it. By the time Tolstoy left, Chekhov had had a serious relapse...
...show needs more such perkiness. more of the zip Belafonte puts into When the Saints Go Marching In. brighter chitchat than likable Hiram Sherman brings to lifting the silver dishcovers off each new course. But the show's weak points may have popular lure. Its concert air half-conceals its TV approach; its chorus that specializes in trick sound effects substitutes vocal decor for visual. The show's big production gimmick is its extremely high-styled hick stuff...
...down all available evidence on the nature of the married state. Against it was: "Terrible loss of time, if many children forced to gain one's bread." But the advantages were pretty inviting: "Children (if it please God)-constant companion (& friend in old age)-charms of music & female chitchat . . . Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa, with good fire and books . . ." In 1839 he married firm, kindly Emma Wedgwood: "the perfect nurse had married the perfect patient." Among their many common bonds was backgammon. Darwin tabulated the results of all their games, so that towards...
Differing Freedoms. Next night Malenkov and his henchmen took dinner with the foreigners at the British embassy, the first time such a thing has happened since Stalin dined with Churchill in wartime 1944. The cordial chitchat between the great men of both nations continued far into the night. "There were no sharp questions asked and no sharp remarks made," said one of the Britons after a five-hourlong heart-to-heart talk with the Russians. At one point in the evening, Attlee, Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky and Trade Minister Mikoyan explored the meaning of the word freedom. At last, through...
...cheery, bleary gatherings, he finds some of the best customers for his parish paper at threepence a throw. The customers, in turn, find smiling Anglican Young's publication like no parish paper they ever saw before; it is crammed with up-to-the-minute movie reviews, theater chitchat and interviews with Hollywood stars, usually illustrated by photographs of the star and Interviewer Young. The advertising columns carry out the un-Puritan atmosphere with ads for beer and ale ("Guinness for Strength...