Word: chattering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Convicted of simple assault & battery were three Warrenton, Va. aristocrats who last June oiled & feathered Washington Society Chit-Chatter Count Igor Cassini, because they did not like his printed references to their families and friends (TIME, July 3). Ian Montgomery, 38, took all the blame, thereby pulled the teeth of the indictment for mob assault, which might have jailed the trio for ten years each. To a court jampacked with Fauquier (pronounced faw´-kee-a) County hunt society, a Fauquier County jury declared the act a misdemeanor, ruled that their fun would cost the defendants $500 (Ian Montgomery...
When she was two years old, little Maxine Yarrington of Erie, Pa. skipped around pestering her mother with endless chatter, like any other normal child. One day she grew feverish, complained of a headache, a stiff back. Mrs. Yarrington put her to bed, called Dr. Howard Bassett Emerson. For a while little Maxine cried and mumbled, but gradually her voice trailed off, and burrowing into the warm quilts, she fell asleep...
...November issue of Radio News tells more than all. According to Editor Kopetzky's undercover man, Anonymous, much of the circumspect chatter from abroad has a double, secret, coded meaning, decipherable only by experts in the broadcasters' listening posts...
...Hollywood, between takes, Cinemactress Greta Garbo, the Swedish nonpareil, is wont to sit aloof and brooding. Metamorphosed by her light-comedy role in her picture-in-progress (Ninotschka), she joined the offset chatter, sometimes smiled right out loud...
...Arabian saddle horse, acted as chief entertainer when Franklin Roosevelt dropped by, been sponsor to many a local sporting event. In his largest role, Gene Howe is known to his Amarillo readers as Old Tack, the generous, convivial, duck-hunting, dog-finding, golf-playing conductor of a column of chatter called "The Tactless Texan." Last week, beneath the smudgy picture of cross-eyed Ben Turpin which daily tops the column, Old Tack, 53, fresh from a visit to Washington, made an announcement which might lead him once again to the nation's front pages. Wrote...