Word: chatting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Roxy was temporarily closed in 1932, Mrs. Elliot transferred her allegiance to the Radio City Music Hall. There, a $45-a-week ballet dancer, Mrs. Rosalie Spatcher Kniskern, made a habit of sitting down for a chat with the old lady when she was not needed on the stage...
...engineer, lived in simple gentility in the Tioga section, writing letters in simplified spelling, championing prohibition, loans at 1% to make America the world's workshop, Esperanto, anti-Darwinism, community ownership of natural wealth, and a slipknot of his own devising. Philadelphia reporters liked to drop in and chat with him on his birthdays, listen to him play his ancient reed organ. They went around to the little house in North 18th Street one day last week, but not to get a birthday story. They came to ask about the funeral arrangements...
...very well at first but a year or two later -just after Marie has made the King angry by calling Madame du Barry a streetwalker-they meet again, at the house of Count Mercy (Henry Stephenson). This time they settle down for a heart-to-heart chat, in the course of which, touching on the subject of museums. Axel enlarges on the reverence called forth by relics of the past. When Marie Antoinette says, "Do you think-one hundred years hence-some Swedish gentleman wandering in Paris may smile over a relic of Marie Antoinette's, a miniature perhaps...
Apple-cheeked Premier Thomas Dufferin Pattullo had journeyed to Washington to chat with President Roosevelt about his cherished dream of a road to Alaska. Returning to find his newly finished post office occupied by a noisy rabble, he failed to impress them by announcing that "this sort of thing must stop." The Dominion Government asked Vancouver city authorities to take action, lent a detachment of red-tunicked Royal Canadian Mounted Police to assist the khaki-clad provincial police and blue-coated city constables in an evacuation. Premier Pattullo gave the sit-downers until 4 a.m. June 19 to move...
...thus more striking. It came also just as the Administration's monopoly investigation-whose first subject is likely to be Big Steel-got going. What was more, Big Steel's young Chairman Edward R. Stettinius Jr. made the announcement just before Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chat, then had dinner with Franklin Roosevelt's close advisor Tom Corcoran and several members of the Business Advisory Council. The President thereupon commented that he was "gratified to know that this reduction in prices has involved no wage...