Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...minute newspaper" started in New York is, like the three minute egg, another tribute by the world to the man in a hurry. The bustle and clatter of energy lavishly expended sets up a sympathetic vibration in every true American heart. Solicitous brains have spun for the busy man to give him a telephone and radio, a motor car and airplane, ready-to-wear clothes, and a meal reduced to seconds in a catch-as-catch-can restaurant...
Selwyn.--"Shuffle Along", the popular negro song-and-dance act continues to make the boards clatter...
Aignan, Margouet-Meymes, and Sabazan, with the friendly little villages all about, how Mr. Hudson makes them speak! Not only to each other, with bonfires, as on St. John's Eve, but to the reader, through the clatter of sabots on their hard white streets, through the children's voices between the plastered walls of their homes. Nothing of great importance has ever happened in Aignan, and nothing ever will. Even the cinema which the little doctor projects never reaches realization. And Tarbes Toulouse, Bayonne remain the measure of things...
...mocking, bitter fact that human nature is utterly unable to comprehend that which is distant from it, or is inevitably forgetful of that which one was reality. You will be strong, indeed if you can leave America without feeling a cold gripping of your heart and a blatant clatter ringing in your ears. I should find it very hard to read such words as yours to our public, and so it is that I write you as one who knows and feels them deeply...