Word: clattering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loud publicity, one might suspect that Producer Carl Laemmle Jr. constructed Destry Rides Again with his tongue in his cheek. Containing all the old trappings of silent pre-War Westerns, with a main street, a saloon entitled "The Golden Girl," a stage coach holdup, fast riding accompanied by studio clatter of horses' hoofs, it has the original plot about the hero running for sheriff, who is double-crossed by his supposed friends, with Right flourishing at the finish...
...human destiny and spiritual salvation" by Poet Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the U. S., was published by Yale University Press. Excerpts from the preface: "Ideas from one end of the world to the other are catching fire like stubble. From Thames to Tiber is heard a great clatter of arms and of hammers in the shipyards. The sea is at one stroke covered with white poppies, the night is plastered all over with Greek letters and algebraic signs. There's dark America yonder like a whale bubbling out of the Ocean! Hark! Howling Asia feels...
Hard-bitten French pilots piled their fighting planes full of flowery bouquets at Havre last week, zoomed aloft with warlike clatter. Circling around the incoming 5. S. He de France, they dived and swooped, strewed the great ship's decks with roses. Amid tootling whistles, dinning sirens, blaring bands, and frantic shouts of "vive Laval!" the Premier of France came home and brought home Daughter Jose. To French reporters she babbled, "America is a fairyland! Its women are beautiful! Its character is best interpreted by its man-built wonders, les skyscrapers! I certainly hope to return. It is possible, however...
...college. Or he can come if he passes four "new-plan" examinations, or by standing well up in his class at the secondary school. In other words, a man who has done his work at school as most boys do can drop into Harvard with no chimes or clatter, and frequently with little definite knowledge of why he came. He may be completely sincere but completely ignorant of the moral and intellectual stress that will be imposed upon him. He has no knowledge of taking notes and no idea how to go about the business of assimilating vast quantities...
Manhattan workmen demolishing old. deserted buildings to make way for Radio City (TIME, March 16), last week ceased their clatter while one of them went into a musty cellar and brought up a hatful of squirming kittens. Behind him trailed a proud, wild mother tabby. He said: "That makes 75 kittens we've rescued since we started work less than two weeks ago. We aren't always able to take the mother cat, and when we can't catch her . . . the men just work around the little family until the little ones are strong enough...