Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even without this revealing hint of what the Roosevelts talk about at table, last week's conference would have been newsworthy. It brought out 1) that Eleanor Roosevelt intends to be inveigled into no wasp-waist corsets this fall; 2) that the delicate White House problem of arranging diplomatic functions this season has been given over to the State Department. The President last week, for reasons of policy (see p. 11), kept an extremely circumspect silence, and Eleanor Roosevelt had to make news enough for two. She did it by expanding, under polite questioning, on her skins-and-pockets...
...lawbooks, and the fat rats begin their soft scuttling around the old statues-then, says legend, the great ghosts of the U. S. past meet for nightly debate over the day's issues. One sweet autumn night last week those historic phantoms had a new historic event to talk over. For as surely as if the votes were already counted, as definitely as if the President had already signed the bill, the U. S. had that day finally jettisoned a principle as old as John Paul Jones, a principle for which it had twice gone to war-the freedom...
Eight weeks ago Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano spent three days with Führer Hitler and Herr von Ribbentrop, returned with news that plunged Mussolini into profound silence. Last week Count Ciano saw them both again. He also was going to talk "peace." But of this visit little notice was taken; Count Ciano stayed less than 24 hours, returned to Rome having discussed, according to authoritative sources...
...German people were silent and sad. There was no enthusiasm for the war and little desire to talk about it. But the crisis had brought them closer together. On the streets and in public places they showed one another the courtesy of unhappy people who know that others are unhappy...
...lends a bewildering touch of the Princeton-Yale-Harvard manner of dress to a Hanover once resplendent in overalls. The principal clothiers of the town are featuring better materials and higher prices. On the streets we hear for the first time in our college career the small talk of the well dressed man, of "shetlands," and "whalebones," of "herring bones," and "tailored by." Dress has become for the first time at Dartmouth, not a physical consideration, but mental and spiritual as well...