Word: chatteringly
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...smoking-in-rooms rule leads indirectly to a major problem of the "uncivilizing" long corridors-noise in the halls. Since the halls in most dorms are one of the few places where smoking is permitted, girls are inclined to take their cigarette and chatter breaks outside of someone's room...
Whatever the logic of it, it makes a decidedly good show. Major Barbara is full of marvelous ideological eye-foolers and glittering intellectual pinwheels and dialectical tugs of war. Beyond that, Shaw has mingled bright drawing-room chatter with sharp cockney unpleasantries, thrown in here an amusing upper-clawss idiot, there a bellowing lower-class bully...
...angry chatter of an electric jack hammer replaced the usual quiet hum of conversation last night in Winthrop House as a central drainage pipe went on the rampage...
...spite of the easygoing luncheon chatter that day in 1955. the four Chicago educators were obviously worried. How, they wanted to know, could the city's colleges and universities, already jammed with 100,000 students, take care of the double enrollment expected by 1970? Then John W. Taylor, onetime president of the University of Louisville and now executive director of Chicago's new educational TV station, began to outline a plan. Though no city had ever tried it. Taylor's three companions-Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton of the University of Chicago, President John Rettaliata of the Illinois Institute...
WHEREVER the President went, with his leathery grin, his vigorous talk, he was met by friendly people. "Well hi ... Why, hello there . . . Yes thanks, I'm feeling fine." He kept up a constant chatter as he waved to big crowds in city streets and small crowds at country crossroads, changing pace to drop his upraised hands and bow gently from the waist to a group of nuns, or stopping solemnly to salute the colors of a high-school band. Nowhere was there a hail-the-conquering-hero quality to the welcome; everywhere the setting was warm, relaxed, assured, befitting...