Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sleeping, eating and practicing while on the road is done in the car, wherever it happens to be parked. The hooting and clatter of passing trains bothers him not a whit...
...whole school of happy, normal-looking fish frolic past, inviting, luring, beckoning with their tails. A svelt mermaid wriggles by. Vag thaws a bit. Lighter and lighter. Then the upward motion stops, and the water drains off the window for the first time in a month. Heavy wrenches clatter against the door bolts. It loosens. A whisper of new air comes in. A whisper, then a hiss, a roar...
...well as being one of the noisiest and most crowded in the world, the New York subway system is also the safest. Over its 230 miles of track bed, 8,755 electric trains clatter daily on split-minute headway, carrying well over 1,500,000,000 passengers every year, more than three times as many as ride each year on all the big U. S. railroads put together. Until this week no subway passenger had lost his life in a train crash in more than two years. Then one morning a closing car door caught a woman's hand...
Radio listeners, as well as the 1,300 who filled NBC's Studio 8H, found that Composer Shostakovich had backtracked with a vengeance. His Fifth Symphony avoided the boisterous clatter that had marred his earlier "May Day" Symphony (No. 3). returned to the vitality and sincerity of the First Symphony which made him famous ten years ago. Dominant influences observable in it were not those of post-War modernists but of such romantic symphonists as the late Gustav Mahler...
...night of the last college meal before vacation only a scattered few were breaking bread in a House dining hall. There was a strange quietness about the room; the rustle of skirts and the clatter of silverware were the major sounds. Voices seemed hushed and shy. Because of the dearth of students many waitresses stood against the wall in idle talk. Spontaneously, above everything, there burst forth a song. In a moment all the girls were caroling to the diners. Applause rewarded this serenade; but that was not enough. As the remnants of the House were leaving, in a magnificent...