Word: chatterboxing
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...promises seemed to be perjured, giving at least plausibility to the Communist thesis that capitalism was in a state of "ever deepening" crisis. Some preferred to think it was a corpse already. One group called themselves "The Laughing Morticians." They included Alexander King, since become a TV chatterbox, satirist George Grosz, an exile from Nazi Germany, and Sociologist Gilbert Seldes, all of them eager to say the last rites over capitalism. The U.S.S.R., a distant and unverifiable protoutopia, brandished a blank check drawn on the future...
...become a painter-they called it "playing the ass in the gutter" -and he went on to a career that has been something less than spectacular. Whether writing about his fun and games in the bulrushes or the gutter, Churchill never rises above the level of an amusingly gossipy chatterbox...
...continue to accept the crumbs." The Detroit Free Press refused to accept the official line that Bowles had not been downgraded, said flatly that "Bowles was fired because he didn't belong and wouldn't quit"; the Chicago Daily News called him "a congenital chatterbox" and a "moony gabbler." Sneered the Miami Herald: "Perhaps now that Mr. Bowles has been shifted out of the top of the department, the public, too, can learn what our foreign policy...
...doubts about it, the junior Senator from Minnesota soon dispelled them. He arrived in the capital talking, and before his freshman year was over had challenged the veracity of Virginia's prestigious Harry Byrd-right on the Senate floor. Official Washington dismissed him as a brash, flippant, pushy chatterbox. It took years to live those first impressions down. "Maybe it would have been better," Humphrey admits, "if I had sat back and waited a little...
...quints attend separate English-language boarding schools in the Buenos Aires area and see each other only on holidays. They do not look or act alike. Franco is a shy honor student, and Carlos Alberto is a husky athlete. Maria Fernanda is quiet, Maria Esther a chatterbox, and Maria Cristina somewhere in between. But they feel their special ties. The father, an Italian immigrant who got rich with textile mills and vegetable-oil factories, says the five are a kind of "Mafia," with their own secret jokes and fierce loyalty. The children chatter in Spanish among themselves, speak Italian...