Word: gabfests
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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...
Last week hustling Mrs. Tufty was back at her regular job of covering the capital for 31 papers in Texas, Michigan and New Jersey. The Duchess, as she likes to be called, dashed up to Manhattan, her pincenez dangling wildly at her bosom, for a television gabfest with her good friend Mary Margaret McBride, and Congressman Fred Hartley. Said Tufty later: "Mary Margaret was a little out of her depth with Fred, so I just took over and interviewed him myself...
Ecclesiastical Gabfest...