Word: chitters
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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Frank Sinatra, long troubled about the "millions of people listening in" who have been irritated by the squealing of his fans, finally discovered how to keep the girls from chitter-barking. "I . . . tried everything-talking to them, reasoning with them-but still they squealed," so, he said, he decided to ban all applause till the end of the broadcast, and the faithful obeyed...