Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first vehicle so emblazoned to enter the Papal precincts since 1870. The estrangement between Pope and King which then began has now been so thoroughly patched up by the Treaty signed last fortnight that next June, according to announcements made last week, the Royal State Coach will clatter up to the Vatican, and King Vittorio Emanuele III will pay a call which the Supreme Pontiff will speedily return...
...once said: "I got on famously with Prince Edward until I put that piece of ice down his neck. ... I liked Oscar Wilde a great deal, but he got a bit tiresome, coming around so often. . . . Once, after I had gone to bed, I heard a great deal of clatter downstairs, and my husband came up. 'My dear,' he said, 'if you must have those wretched poets sleeping around the place, can't you have them sleep in the garden? This is the third time I have stumbled over one of them.' " She once quoted...
...took their meals in Memorial Hall, eight hundred more were in Randall. Today the freshmen take their meals in the four dining rooms of their dormitories. The majority of the upperclassmen do not take meals at all, but bolt their food hur- ridly in the rush and noise and clatter of any one of the score of cafeterias, eating houses, or lunch counters, which occupy half the stores in the vicinity of Harvard Square...
With brazen clatter a telegraph machine spat news of speed and Death, last week, into the dignified Roman sanctum of Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre. The Count publishes L'Osservatore Romano, the sole daily newsorgan permitted to speak for the Vatican...
...radio was going. Shortly after the monstrous voice of John L. McNab was heard, at about eight o'clock, the radio sounded as if it had broken. It began to roar, hum, shriek, blare, clatter. The Beaver Man's name had been placed before the convention...