Word: clatterer
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With a scandalous clatter, the bottom fell out of New York's butter market last week. The day after Christmas, wholesale butter prices fell on the New York Mercantile Exchange from 84¼? a lb. to 74½?, sharpest drop in many years...
...tiny, sun-warmed island in Wusih's Lake Tai Hu, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek celebrated his 60th birthday with his wife and friends. He said it was the happiest day he had spent in ten years, unmarred even by the clatter and stink of the small steamboat originally chartered to pull the picnic barge to the island...
...heard the instructor say something about ends. End of what? Vag wondered. End of the class? He wrote "Flynn" and then, more carefully, "Coulson." Under the "H"--probably a major "H" Vag thought-- he put down "Davis, Dewey, Drvarie." He was thinking about the other guard when the clatter of closing books came in on him. He wrote "Rodis" quickly and shut his notebook...
...Holy City's sun-baked walls and domes had dominated the ages. Doomed to repeated conquest, it had heard the clatter of Egyptian cavalry, the rattle of Persian scythe-wheeled chariots, had known Assyrian and Babylonian, the Macedonian phalanx and the Roman legion, Seleucid and Seljuk, Crusader, Saracen and Ottoman Turk. One conqueror supplanted the other, or declined to impotent passivity. But Jerusalem still remained, permanent in the perspective of history, as the city sometimes appears in a sudden lifting of the haze, crowning Zion...
...shouts and sobs of desperate Jews, the hobnailed clatter of angry Tommies, the plash of bulging refugee ships, had been heard around the world-in Whitehall, where a harassed Labor Government hoped that the outraged moment would soon fade into the indifferent past; in the White House, muffled in discreet silence; in the Kremlin, where alert eyes watch any disturbances on the lifeline of Empire...