Word: chitchat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...studio in Wanamaker's department store. She moved into network TV on the giveaway show, Winner Take All ("I gave away prizes, acted in sketches and just sort of filled in"), and did her first regular commercials as emcee of NBC's Embassy Club: "I did polite chitchat about king-sized cigarettes...
Listening to Chitchat. What had he done? Mostly listened with a sharper and more discerning ear than anyone else to the chitchat of the enemies of the U.S. ever since the beginning of World War I. According to World War II Chief of Staff George Marshall, the cracking of the famed Japanese "purple" code, for which Friedman was principally responsible, led to vital foreknowledge of Hitler's intentions in Europe and gave the U.S. Navy a priceless advantage in intelligence that led to such critical victories as Coral Sea, Midway and subsequent bold carrier strikes. Friedman himself gently declines...
...many company publications in danger of losing this battle? The chief reason is that the majority deliberately pull their punches. Unlike union papers, which thrive on dispute and energetically exploit any issue that affects the worker's welfare, most house organs concentrate on personal notes and chitchat. They not only shun controversy but steer clear of any stories on company policies and problems. A recent survey of 75 house organs in the Los Angeles area showed that only 15% made any attempt to communicate management plans and policies, almost all the rest were filled with social and personal items...
...edge of her every enthusiasm. She is a roaring Life Drive without a muffler, and the most commanding prose female since Philip Wylie dreamed up "Mom." Around her and her nephew Pat Author Dennis has fashioned a frothy drawing-room comedy spiked with smoking-room raffishness and powder-room chitchat. The little old lady from Dubuque will find Auntie Mame some gal, but no lady...
...mumbo jumbo thoughout the country suddenly begin to realize that you mean business, you will be astonished . . . how fast they will change their tune." At first, Hartford's targets shrugged him off as a crank with money. Newspaper editorials and letters-to-the-editors, plus arty-party chitchat, have shown in the past month that Hartford does make sense to thousands of people. But his view that art should follow only a middle road-a three-lane, 40-miles-an-hour parkway between photographic realism and emotional expressionism-is too pat to be persuasive. It would sacrifice the adventurousness...