Word: chatteringly
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Trend. Cities like Buffalo are accustomed to four distinct types of local publications: daily newspapers for national and local news; country-clubby monthlies for social chatter; chamber-of-commercy magazines to brag about the city and back-pat its bigwigs; and, after the success of The New Yorker, a rash of local smart-charts broke out, flourished briefly, faded away. Buffalo last week was the scene of a new kind of small-city journalistic enterprise. Out came a four-page tabloid to review and, where possible, go behind the week's local news, develop news personalities. It was called...
...passing of the last "lame duck" session in U. S. history was a sombre, subdued affair. The nation was too wracked with troubles for silly songs and partisan chatter. The nearest thing to a joke was cracked by Republican Senate. Leader Watson, defeated for reelection, when he announced that he was "going home with the almost unanimous consent of the people of Indiana...
Because Geneva hoped and believed that Washington will back up the League, Assemblymen looked askance at Chatter Gibson. Unruffled, he strode to a group of seats just outside the Assembly's pale on which sat assorted U. S. and Russian diplomats, the latter headed by Soviet Minister to Finland Boris Stein. No Foreign Minister of a Great Power was present except France's debonair Mâitre Paul-Boncour. Few Assemblymen even wore frock coats. This was to be a little fellows' day, although Britain, France, Germany and Italy stood ready to back up at last...
...these girls in here is that they don't know the score--why some of them go all the way to Junior year without knowing that there's a ball game going on. In my day most of the girls knew all about it--but then,--I better not chatter about them too much--the hall mistress might hear, and she's holy terror, believe...
Isabel Paterson writes book reviews for the Manhattan Herald Tribune, is principally noted for her weekly columns of literary chatter, "Turns With a Book-worm." In spare moments she writes novels, of which Never Ask the End is the latest and will apparently be the most successful (it is the Literary Guild choice for January). Many a reader who admires Authoress Paterson's flip, common-sensical newspaper way will shake a puzzled head over Never...