Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looked about and saw many familiar faces, heard snatches of old familiar stories. The conversation was general, but occasionally a voice would rise above the buzz of chatter...
...speak of this treatment in terms of Modernism or Expressionism is considerably to confuse the issue. With so much rather frenzied chatter about Modernism, one gets the impression that a mythical younger generation is about to invade the drama with guns, saxophones, poetry and (God save the mark!) Expressionism. I herewith depone that this is emphatically not the case. It is not so very long ago that the first trained elephant stepped proudly into the first saw-dust ring, but the art of entertainment as practiced by Mr. Barnum (as well as by William Shakespeare and Florenz Ziegfeld...
...thinks is a depraved animal. Thus, shunning depravity, they fall blindly into it. Superficial cleverness passes current for wisdom. A spark is mistaken for true fire. They babble of many things, but ponder few. And so the great problems of mankind pass lightly over their untroubled heads, while they chatter about the trifles of yesterday and today...
Love for Love. There was a good deal of chop-licking on the part of the more unregenerate critics when this ancient bit of brittle Congreve chatter was released on the stage of the Greenwich Village Theatre. It proved to be one of the most unrestrained of the so-called immoral contributions to the season. Heywood Broun, in particular, was pleased by the display. He argued that a dirty play was perfectly admissible provided it was funny enough. Almost everyone agreed that it was funny enough...
...Significance. Under and over the chatter of the busy nation, behind business-noise and play-noise, are heard the real voices of the continent? Frost and Robinson in New England, Sandburg and Lindsay in the Midwest. The Far West has been silent since Bret Harte, Joaquin Miller, John Muir. Now Jeffers is heard, unmistakably powerful, individual, a true racial poet chanting on his high Pacific headland...