Word: chatterly
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...cocktail-party bore who laces his chatter with the tiresome cliche about "crazy, mixed-up women" has more medical science on his side than he knows-and more than medical scientists themselves have recognized until recently. Even normal women, it appears, are mixtures of two different types of cells, or what the researchers call "genetic mosaics." If both cell types are normal, so is the woman. But if one is defective, though a woman may seem to enjoy good health herself, she may pass on hereditary disorders to her children. And oddly, the victims will nearly always be her sons...
...Harold Macmillan's political enemies once again were crying for his scalp. Emboldened by its own gains in the votes, Labor sharpened its criticism of Macmillan's government, and even critics among the Tories themselves now referred to the onetime "Macwonder" as "Mr. Macfail." This made good chatter in pubs; but by-elections are hardly representative of a whole nation's mood. In any case, the Tories would not have to call a general election until 1964. Until then, Macmillan could fall back on his control of the House of Commons, where he has a solid majority...
...none of whom should ever have been registered. The commanding figure is a charge nurse (Shirl Conway) who has the voice and manner of a rich Connecticut matron with old money and old blood. The opening episode took place in a maternity ward and was full of knowing chatter about centimeters of dilation and uterine cancer. Women writhed in pain. One died on the operating table. The dialogue was as phony as the obstetrics. Charge Nurse: "Do you want it straight. Miss Lucas?" Some other time...
Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, edited by Frederick A. Pottle and Charles H. Bennett. This latest-to-be-edited volume of Boswell's journal cannot deepen the portrait of Johnson, but Bozzy's entertaining chatter continues delightfully as he describes the doctor, a great bag of prejudice and conversation set atop a tiny horse, clambering over the wet Scottish islands...
...clerk whose marriage to Brigitte Bardot's movie stand-in broke up in 1958. Despondent, Perrin tried suicide (poison and gas). On recovering, he took his psychiatrist's advice to drive a cab in Paris for the therapeutic value. Annoyed by gabby passengers, Perrin responded to their chatter with the same contemptuous wisecrack: "Mais tout (a ne vaut pas un clair de lune à Maubeuge" (But all that is not worth the moonlight at Maubeuge)-a retort all the more effective in that Perrin had never set eyes on Maubeuge...