Word: confab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Confab...
...thing of no mean pulchritude, whom he proceeded to nudge and make growling noises at throughout the first half. Between halves, after she had made the customary trip to that partitioned section under the stadium know to Harvard students of old as "never-never land," she had a short confab with the usher...
Shapley will go globe-trotting again on Saturday when he takes off from New York for Copenhagen, Denmark, where the International Astronomical Union will hold a two-week confab. "We shall not ask Maj. Gen. Groves," he reminds us, "what he thinks about orbital calculations...
...hope of the Administration, as Lew Schwellenbach tried to pull his Labor Department together, rested on the labor-management conference due to convene in Washington Nov. 5. Politicos devoutly hoped that the big confab might have a formula for peace before the entire automobile industry could be struck. But it looked as though Harry Truman was operating on a split-second timetable. His luck would have to be good to head off a complete shutdown in Detroit...
...arch Aiken, the Virginia playboy, who spent a vigilant week-end watching and waiting for Humph Bogart and Lauren Bacall to check in at the Gotham, Arch's big-town hang-out. His patience was not rewarded and friend Aiken had ot settle with a train ride confab with his fellow UVA man, T. B. Perry, 3rd. Old Neil Summers carrot-thatched New Yorker, found the rails a little too boresome and took to the air this week. The result was near disaster, but "Corney" promises better results in the future...