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...investigators failed to find out how these sounds are made. But they did find it possible to distinguish mating cries from what appeared to be calls of warning or anger. Mosquitoes apparently never talk to themselves, but when two or more are gathered together, they usually break into eager chatter. A female's bellow invariably brings an answering chorus from all the males within hearing...
...Western Hemisphere was in motion. That motion, at the opening of the Conference of American Republics in Mexico City, fairly glittered with the comings & goings of Latin diplomats and their well-dressed ladies, with chatter in bars (mostly in Spanish with a sprinkling of English and Portuguese), with sonorous speeches at green baize tables, with huge Mexican midday dinners at Chapultepec Castle. Meantime the men of the Western Hemisphere got down to the hemisphere's business...
Crammed with dull chatter and paced for obsequies rather than nuptials, And Be My Love is as much sleeping powder as play. Best served by it is Walter Hampden who, by playing an actor, can strut and attitudinize with glorious impunity...
Those who know the details of what Hopkins does form a small circle indeed?Generals Marshall and Arnold, Admirals King and Leahy, Cabinet Members Stimson, Forrestal and Stettinius, and, of course, the President?men not given to idle chatter. On many a problem, the fine line of just where the President leaves off and Hopkins takes up is a matter privy to them alone, and public knowledge of it must await their memoirs, which Hopkins?being the kind of man he is?will probably never write. Said one eminent Washingtonian who has often worked with Hopkins : "The people who dislike...
...industrial noise is harder on the nerves than the brain-battering din of riveting. In one department of Bell Aircraft Corp.'s huge B-29 plant near Marietta, Ga., dominated by the monstrous chatter of some 450 riveters, conversation has been by lipreading. The uproar has undoubtedly played a big part in the heavy turnover and absenteeism among the riveters, half of whom are women...