Word: chatteringly
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...persons next to you insist upon talking to you during breakfast-Be kindly toward them. It may be they think you have no inner resources on which to rely, and so they chatter to put you at ease...
Pass offense and defense with lots of spirit and chatter marked the proceedings, but a few goldbricks were noted among the eager beavers. While Bob Waterfield knocked himself out dragging down a 60-yard toss with one hand, Tom Harmon gave Kenny Washington a hotfoot and the line played footy-footy...
...alarmed New York Telephone Co. reported that daily calls had risen to a whopping 12,815,000 after V-J day-over a third more than the average prewar chatter. Conversations over private lines were getting longer & longer; wires were especially busy on rainy days, Mondays, and days after holidays. Observed the New York Daily News: "The telephone people aren't telling which sex gets on a busy wire and talks for half-hour stretches about two-egg cakes and such things. We're not sticking our neck out, either. . . . We've just got an epidemic...
...very bright side too. It has some of Wilde's most glittering sayings ("Experience . . . is simply the name men give to their mistakes"; "I can resist everything except temptation"). It has some of the best fooling and chatter that Wilde, a master of both, ever wrote. It brings to high life a touch of style and more than touch of snob appeal. All this pleasantly gilds its tale of a Woman with a Past who Lady Windermere, not knowing it was her own mother, thought was carrying on with her husband; .and who smirched her reputation a second time...
...fortify his position with the U.S. public, Sablon began over CBS this week (Sun., 5:30 p.m., E.D.S.T.) a series of 15-minute chanson-and-chatter programs. For the first time a coast-to-coast audience could savor the bilingual ambiguities of such Sablon songs as Le Fiacre, the success story of a married woman and her lover. As they are driving about, their coach accidentally runs over the husband, who has been secretly tailing them. The wife looks out, observes: "Splendid, Léon, it's my husband. . . . Give 100 sous to the coachman...