Word: chitchat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ashes. The largest nation left extant would be able to organize the world under one control, if it has been able to remain neutral. That this did not occur in the last "war" is due only to the fact that its battles, its slaughter, its campaigns were but puling chitchat in the cradle...
...German plane drops a note, countersigned by Prisoner Howard, requesting Fairbanks' return. On the front-line a white flag is raised. The Germans raise another, send out two men. The Allied lines send out three, including Fairbanks. In No Man's Land the party engages in chitchat, cigaret-exchanging, and Fairbanks is handed over. At his prison camp trial he refuses to testify, is sentenced to be shot, is saved by the actual murderer's note and suicide. As an adequate finish to this melodramatic tale (adapted from Author Sir Philip Gibbs's novel, Fellow Prisoners...
daemia erred when it accepted New Haven chitchat, attributed "The Long, Long Derelict; to the late Edward J. Moriarty, New Haven barkeep (TIME, March...
...success that Kresge & Kress stores followed suit by adopting two magazines published by George T. Delacorte Jr. (Modern Screen, Modern Romances - TIME, Nov. 3). The success was repeated.* Smart publishers then accepted as fact the theory that women who never patronize a newsstand will buy io? love fiction, Hollywood chitchat, etc. where they buy their merchandise...
...Colyumist Winchell has annoyed any one with such peeping chitchat, observers reflected that he may also be feared and hated for what he knows and has not written...