Word: chatterboxing
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Most famed of British annuals is probably the children's Chatterbox, which for well-brought-up English and American moppets has long been a Christmas staple. This year Chatterbox was issued by London's Dean & Son, Ltd., who acquired it from the family of its late Editor Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton. Founder of Chatterbox was the Rev. Erskine Clark who started it in St. Paul's shadow in 1866 passed it on to Editor Darton when he died in 1901. In the monthly Chatterbox, Canon Clark hoped to get children's minds off "bad stories...
...Lowe to distraction, created parliamentary crises in London, steered his ill-assorted little company so artfully they became an efficient propaganda and espionage apparatus. Meanwhile he waddled around Longwood, recalling his great days, making the whole company work on his memoirs. Talking as much as Samuel Johnson, the imperial chatterbox spun out his pungent, cynical comments, salting his malice with sudden acts of kindness, keeping his followers in line like a wealthy old uncle with hints of the wealth he would leave them. He bluffed them, too, for he had very little to leave. But his mimic war for moral...
...sophisticates last week clucked over a new tidbit about Alexander Woollcott, roly-poly chatterbox of The New Yorker. According to the New York World-Telegram, Mr. Woollcott was out of The New Yorker, ostensibly because the editors disapproved of ribald anecdotes with which he had lately spiced his "Shouts & Murmurs" page...
...last week's Liberty appeared an article by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., eccentric chatterbox of the family, stating that "half of society has ceased to splurge because of depleted income; while the other half, with as much money as ever, is afraid to cut capers. . . . Several of my friends placed 'sell short' orders with their brokers ten days before the great market crash. And, while uninformed investors were renting twentieth-story hotel rooms for purposes of self-destruction, the gentlemen I speak of sat sipping their brandy, blowing blue perfecto smoke to the ceiling. . . ." The fortunates, he wrote...
...chatterbox rural parish discovers the affair and turns against him as a defender of evil. He loses his church and is about to hang himself when a small child and an ancient farmer remind him that love and courage are enduring loyalties in life...