Word: clattered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little room in the gallery, seats were hinged so that they could be raised for standing prayers. Students listened reverently to the pastor's prayers, but the "amens" were usually followed by a thundering crash as freshmen and sophomores competed in the art of seat-slamming. Until the clatter had subsided, hymns were almost inaudible. Noisy students were not as riotous as their contemporaries from the town, however. One Sunday afternoon in 1812, a discharged company of Cambridge militia marched triumphantly into the church, "with drum and fife affronting the Sabbath." With measured tramp and fife trilling, they filed into...
...swept Carnegie Hall, dutifully played three encores. Later that night, he could be seen walking down neon-gaudy Broadway. Just five blocks south of the august concert hall, he ducked into a cellar. Within a few minutes Concert Pianist Friedrich Gulda was on the bandstand, amid the smoke and clatter of Broadway's famed Birdland nightclub, playing jazz-cool, glittering and poignant as icicles. Sitting in with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Pianist Gulda rippled out chorus after chorus of Lullaby of Birdland while the hipsters shouted approval. "How much nicer this is than Carnegie Hall," sighed Pianist Gulda when...
...Neuberger's senior colleague, Wayne Morse, first visited Washington in 1925, his arrival was less publicized, but in a way, even noisier. One jungle-hot afternoon a weathered Model T lurched down the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue with a rattle and a clatter that Calvin Coolidge, 50 yards away in the White House, might easily have heard. Its hood was propped open to keep the motor cool, its rear end listed to one side under an uneven burden of piled-up duffle in the back seat, and its muffler was all too obviously missing. A sweating cop whistled...
...edge in the Long Island village of Brookhaven. From the window he can see his 34-ft. yawl, the Heron, or look across Great South Bay to waterfowl feeding grounds. Bird painting is strictly a hobby, pursued in a corner of his dining alcove, usually amid the clatter and commotion set up by four children (aged five to 14) and an assortment of pets...
...Press Clatter. Most Likely to Succeed is perhaps the most savage satire against the gulliberal so far produced by an American. Dos Passos is angry, but he shifts his anger into a high gear of farce, at least for the first 200 pages. Dos Passos writes with a giddy, go-to-press clatter that has not been heard in his books since the '20s, and the mood of Village radicalism in those days is brilliantly laid...