Word: chatting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When tourists, natives, other unofficial persons near Rapid City chance to meet President Coolidge,. he returns their greeting with a polite bow, does not usually stop and chat with them. He broke his rule, however, for the sake of a stranger encountered on the steps of the Rapid City High School, temporary White House office. The stranger wore a hat wider even than the President's ten-gallon fishing headgear. In his silk shirt and flowing neckerchief clashed vivid colors. He wore high-heeled, embossed riding boots bearing the letters "put" in white just below each knee. Not even...
...impressionistic anecdote. It ironically details the slender history of a nameless Negro in an overseas battalion who was caught filching food from another outfit's mess. He finds that the hardboiled lieutenant to whom he is brought for discipline hails from Galveston, Tex. So does the Negro. They chat together for a few minutes. Months later the officer learns that the black regiment has been destroyed...
...taciturnity and matutinal solemnity at political breakfasts he only evidences his own ignorance of human nature and breakfast, well versed though he may be in politics. Not even the most inimical of the Coolidge crities would be grudge him a before-breakfast complex. It is one thing to chat merrily along at luncheons and dinners-and it is another to be pollyannic at the first meal...
...luncheon--at the Ritz;--it takes confidence--and much more than confidence. Even the eminently respectable and rehabilitated Parker House and the Victorian solidity of the Touraine yield to the superior glorifications of the Ritz. The ultimate goal of the aspiring undergraduate now changes from being able to chat familiarly with the Copley doorman to possessing sufficient boldness to call the Ritz headwaiter by his first name...
...establish a human relation has succeeded so well that some directors or tutors even think the men spend more time with their students than they need to spend. The tutor who enjoys taking his ease in his inn naturally finds the students ready to spend much time in general chat. It is not so easy, when trying to cultivate a close relation, to cut interviews short. For instruction, the students are met singly or in small groups of those whose reading is much the same. The consultation is kept small enough to be of the nature of a private consultation...