Word: gabfests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stands a gravestone with obscure and uninformative markings. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who issued Old Ironsides from the house whose site the stone marks, no doubt would have rescued his birthplace from such funereal treatment with another epic, but, as it was, all he got around to was a written gabfest at his breakfast table...
...regional assembly's 90 seats. (Current division: Demo-Christians 30, the Communist and left-wing Socialist "bloc of the people" 30, neo-Fascist M.S.I, II , Monarchists 10, others 9). Sicilians, as is their habit, reveled in the spectacle. What mainlanders call political rallies, Sicilians zestfully term parlata (gabfest), and they turn out for them all with impartial thoroughness. "And you would never guess from seeing him at a parlata what is hatching in the Sicilian's brain," explained a Sicilian bishop...
...night about a year ago, during an intellectual gabfest in Madrid's Café Gijon, two young authors, José Maria Da Quinto and José Gordon, thought up a way to skirt the government censorship of the stage. Why not form a private club to put on shows for members only? Franco's rules did not forbid it. So the club La Carátula (The Mask) was born...