Word: chitchat
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...suggestion of Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Herald Tribune, she started "On the Record," the next year began a monthly chitchat for the Ladies' Home Journal. By World War II, she was read across the U.S. (peak circulation: some 200 papers in 1941), feared in Government circles...
Through the Kremlin's massive Spassky Gate one day last week hurried Democrat Adlai Stevenson, headed for the office of Russia's Premier Nikita Khrushchev. After a brief chitchat warmup, Khrushchev surged into familiar accusations of U.S. "imperialism," possibly thinking that a twice-defeated presidential candidate of the U.S. out-party might agree with him. Far from it. Through interpreters, Stevenson briskly defended Administration foreign policies, riled Khrushchev by bringing up the brutal Soviet intervention in Hungary in 1956. Khrushchev urged Stevenson to talk to Hungarian government officials and hear the true story for himself. Stevenson retorted...
...comprise 85% of its readership (and 90% of its staff) that disease, death and violence are mortal "errors." Thus the Monitor gives only token coverage to top medical stories such as the Salk vaccine; it sternly downplays disaster and crime. It shuns error-prone society and show-business chitchat and runs the world's tersest obituaries (omitting the cause of death and names of survivors...
Appearing on a TV chitchat show in Chicago, Boston Pops Orchestra Conductor Arthur Fiedler was hesitantly asked if he dislikes any special kind of music-such as, maybe, rock 'n' roll. He astonished many adult listeners by replying: "I like rock 'n' roll-a certain amount of it. I think that's completely American...
...torchy, slickly phrased reading to such old standbys as Nice Work If You Can Get It and My Funny Valentine, and less familiar numbers, e.g., Guess Who I Saw Today? The voice is too anemic for the big, strutting talk, but just right for the languorous, blues-flavored chitchat of a girl who has been there before...