Word: chatteringly
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...this time other Senators had become so interested in what was going on that they stopped their own chatter and listened amid comparative silence. Still the Sergeant-at-Arms failed to appear...
...with smiling expectation for her second. Like her first, The Barbarians is a light-hearted farce compounded of verbal high jinks, a glass house epigrammed in chromium, furnished (in spots) with topical puns. An unserious book if there ever was one, it should appeal to those who like their chatter in book form; might even do a little missionary work among the followers of the late Thorne Smith...
...live long, they claim a special beauty for their limited lives. Unable to conceive eternity, they worship time. Unable to avoid suffering and disappointment, they pretend that these are nobler teachers than felicity and truth. Unable to achieve anything better than the sorriest confusion in their minds, they chatter about the unfathomable variety of the world...
...gloated Superintendent Lanham, "it's the rumpus and clatter of the cans. They'll flee for dear life." Setting up a frightful din, the workers rattled and poked. As predicted, the starlings fled-to the eaves and cornices of nearby buildings, where they resumed their own annoying chatter. Superintendent Lanham was not baffled. First windless night he planned to send out a squad of men armed with large, hydrogen-filled balloons on long strings. These would scare the starlings off the buildings, back into the trees. There his tin-can brigade could rout them back to the buildings...
Thus it seems to me that those who take seriously the Nazi chatter on these subjects must make even the Nazis laugh. Professor Wiener does his intelligence no credit if he thinks those who run Germany are fools. Let him call them flends if he will, but not fools. They know exactly what they want (Regard--Oh, Democracy!) and the chances are, that in spite of the nervous French and the nervous Jews, they will get it. In History, is or is it not that that counts...