Word: hobnobbing
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Outside Congress: he lives with his wife in a small house on K Street. He owns no car, rides taxis, streetcars or walks. He does not hobnob with his western colleagues in Congress, prefers to circulate in Washington's more socialite...
Untired by his activities in Chicago, Senator Imai then led his compatriots to the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan, prepared to hobnob with his great customers, Paolino Gerli, Emil J. Stehli, Ward Cheney, E. Irving Hanson (Mallinson silks), Paul C. Debry (Duplan silks) and many another...
...those of the ruling white caste. Oldtime white residents claim that they could hold the native in his place if it were not for tourists from the mainland. These visitors, it is said, arrive with sentimental notions about a non-existent people and then proceed to flatter and hobnob with the half-castes in the mistaken idea that they are full-blooded Hawaiians. This outside attention, oldtimers claim, turns the head of the half-caste, makes him arrogant, unruly, lustful...
City Lights (United Artists). It is almost a law in publicity-loving Southern California that the two greatest personalities there present shall hobnob while the press & public loudly cheer or jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting Hollywood. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out one evening to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein and a party of scientists to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...
...Elliott is uneasy in her installment-plan nest in Rockport, N. J., and that her husband shows no inclination to listen to her pleas for a more stimulating, if less propertied, life. A job of arson helps the Elliotts. Burned out, they take a studio apartment in the city, hobnob with the bare and bibulous, plan to spend their insurance money on a trip to Europe where Mrs. Elliott will absorb culture and scenery and Mr. Elliott promote a mysterious business scheme. But a pair of jealous wives back in New Jersey contrive to make it appear that Mrs. Elliott...