Word: chatteringly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took down the dictated item on a noiseless typewriter. . . . The transatlantic service begins daily at 8:30 a. m., Eastern Standard Time, ending at 1:30 p. m. Rates: $25 per min.; minimum, three min., maximum twelve min. (though on the second day a Manhattan woman was allowed to chatter along for 28 min., costing $700). The equipment involved cost five millions. The route: New York to Rocky Point, L. I. (land wire), to Wroughton, England (radio), to London (land wire), to Rugby (land wire), to Houlton, Me. (radio), to New York (land wire...
...penance for American audiences, he makes odious comparisons between British actresses and those of Broadway. He says that the lovely ladies of the Strand do not possess the accomplishments of their transatlantic sisters. They do well at "drawing room comedy where the only demand on their art is facile chatter," but in the heavier drama, the hair-fearing tragedy, they must bow to the superiority of American rivals...
...John Lane officials begged the public's pardon: they were sorry but, entirely innocent themselves, they had fathered the hoax. The book was quite spurious, and was written by one who was ignorant of those about whom he gossiped and lacked the background necessary to such in time chatter. Would everyone who had bought the book please return it to the publishers and get their refund? If the purchasers would be so obliging all would again be serene, feelings would be soothed, and the whole matter might be regarded as a bad dream...
...Davison, when the benediction had closed the service proper, used always to play the organ for a few minutes while those who cared for the custom and for the music remained in the peace and restfulness of noonday Appleton. Now they must chatter forth with the crowd or remain to hear the chattering die into nothingness. Perhaps these good people are too small a number to merit the grand chords which once were theirs. Yet that, only a person of little sensibility can defend. Even minor traditions must be flaunted occasionally in public to prevent their too easy death...
...Then Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis ace, turned professional, along with other tennis notables. People thought that Mr. Pyle showed acumen. Until last week, however, few knew that Mr. Pyle was likewise a dramatist. The scene was the great dining hall of the steamship Paris, ablaze with lights, aglow with chatter of sporting bigwigs. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, the Peter Pan of Princeton, was, of course, toastmaster. Down the majestic stairway, slowly into the room came Vincent Richards, star, "logical" successor...