Word: chatteringly
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...19th century, Henry James no longer needs to cloak the intent of gossip. In What Maisie Knew he reports, "Everybody was always assuring everybody of something very shocking, and nobody would have been jolly if nobody had been outrageous." The Great Gatsby offers a classic instance of jazz-age chatter: " 'He's a bootlegger,' said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers. 'One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop...
...latest addition to the library of behind-the-scenes books published since he 1981 wedding made the Royals into a worldwide fad. These recollections of Stephen Barry, Prince Charles' former valet, tell about the Buckingham Palace staff, the exhaustive preparations for all forms of Royal ceremonies, and inside chatter about the sheltered, affluent lifestyle of the world's richest people...
...recently visited with him in Amarillo. One of Beatrice's children now works in the Reagan White House personnel office, and helped organize the youth vote in the last campaign. There has been talk that Pickens might run for Governor of Texas next year. He does not discourage such chatter...
...accept with resignation the Knowledge that our fellow students are altogether too anxious to squeeze us off of the serving line, or giggle and chatter loudly throughout the course of an hour lecture. Perhaps it is the impersonal nature of classes and large dining hall-in which we seek out our friends and eye strangers skeptically--that condones or reinforces such shabby behavior. Perhaps the attitude of Harvard students, who tend to guard their own interest above others, accounts for such superfluous incidents of rudeness. Many it's peer pressure on a grand scale: since everyone else yucks...
...Arnold flew home with a full moon rising. He had covered 550 miles. The people he had seen are not hermits in the real sense, not even xenophobic (they chatter all day on their radios; they welcome strangers who accompany Ray), so much as they are shot through with oldtime ornery independence, misfits with a thing against clocks. To understand what drew them here, one need only remember those maps where population density is shown by clusters of black dots--each dot representing 100,000 people, say--on a white background...