“Hollywood is fond of gushing chit-chat as any other town.” Irene Dunne (1898–1990) American actress How To Get Along In Hollywood (1948)
“And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.” P.G. Wodehouse book Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (1954) Dogs