Word: chatterer
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...talk is artless, the talk of people trying to reassure or comfort themselves, women in the sun, grouped around baby carriages ... or men in saloons, talking to combat the loneliness everyone feels." As a result, the characters in My Ears Are Bent - strip-tease artists, fan dancers, baseball players - chatter away with the utmost seriousness on subjects of whose absurdity they are unaware, or perform the unthinkingly idiotic gestures of people who think they are alone. One of Mitchell's unselfconscious heroes was Mr. Holton, self-taught authority on mass insanity, who went crazy. Mr. Holton's wife...
From first to last not a single roll call was taken, thus making it impossible to say officially who was there or who voted. No laws were passed, none submitted. Not even the new five-year plan was debated. As Government newsorgans put it: "There was no useless chatter. The deputies knew what to do, and they...
Representative and onetime (1925-29) Governor, Ralph 0. Brewster, who had been lunching in a drugstore nearby. G-men opened fire from all directions on Brady and Shaffer. The chatter of machine-gun fire lasted about five minutes. When it ended Brady and Shaffer were lying dead on the car tracks, their little bodies about 15 ft. apart...
...have just learned of an article about our paper the Chatham Chatter in your Aug. 16 issue...
...behalf of the staff I wish to thank you for your kind mention of our paper the Chatham Chatter...