Word: clatterer
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...Benito Mussolini beamed with pleasure. Leaping to the driver's seat of the tractor, he threw in the clutch, sent the machine careening off in a 100-ft. circle to mark not the boundaries of Aprilia, but the foundation of Aprilia's town hall. Above the clatter of the engine he roared with laughter at secret service men, stumbling through the mud, breathlessly trying to keep up with...
Recently the radical press of the nation learned about the deaths at Gauley Bridge, began to rattle the skeleton of what it claimed was a hideous industrial scandal (TIME: Jan. 6). One who heard the clatter was young Representative Vito Marcantonio of Manhattan, who has a sharp ear for the kind of news stories that will help him in his Harlem district. As a friend of the working man he called for a Congressional investigation and witnesses. Quickly formed in Manhattan was a National Gauley Bridge Committee to which such notables as Professor Haven Emerson of Columbia University, Socialist Norman...
...fighting ships into the air ready for the "Fly Past" over Duxford. This was made at the unusually high altitude for an air force review of 1,000 feet "because the king is greatly affected by noise." So were 150,000 spectators. Even at 1,000 feet the menacing clatter of the air armada filled Britons less with pride than fear. The great throng at the climax of the "Fly Past" seemed stricken dumb. Sober faces were eloquent of what everyone was thinking: "These are our planes, but they might be Germany...
...pretty wife amazed St. Louis by playing golf in scanty shorts and a sunback bandanna, her husband rehearsed tirelessly for 14 hours a day. Producer Schwab's costume: baggy slacks, sweat shirt, worn felt hat. His results: a smooth performance, with no muffed lines, no backstage clatter, no long stage waits...
...recovered from a heart attack. Word had come from London that important Cabinet changes were imminent (see p. 19). With luck, within a fortnight, Captain Eden might find himself Foreign Minister of Great Britain. Minister Laval had scarcely had a good night's sleep for a month. The clatter of railway wheels rang ceaselessly in his ears. He had just traveled from Paris to Warsaw, to Moscow, back to Warsaw and Cracow for the funeral of Marshal Pilsudski, through Berlin back to Paris and now to Geneva. The French franc, the French Government, Laval's political future were...