Word: clatterer
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With brazen clatter a telegraph machine spat news of speed and Death, last week, into the dignified Roman sanctum of Editor Count Giuseppe Dalla Torre. The Count publishes L'Osservatore Romano, the sole daily newsorgan permitted to speak for the Vatican...
...radio was going. Shortly after the monstrous voice of John L. McNab was heard, at about eight o'clock, the radio sounded as if it had broken. It began to roar, hum, shriek, blare, clatter. The Beaver Man's name had been placed before the convention...
Pope Pius XI, was awakened at dawn by an astonishing clatter of swords and the sound of soldiers' voices disturbing the peaceful courtyards of the Vatican. It was, Pius XI remembered suddenly, his 71st birthday. The "Noble Guard," and the rest of the Papal army were preparing a little military maneuver for him to review. The Pope arose, said mass, reviewed his tiny regiments, received thousands of congratulatory messages and reflected with pleasure that Italian Catholic school children were enjoying a holiday. Later, 50 newly pledged U. S. priests kissed his hand...
When they heard the horrible clatter that came from the ground floor, the schoolgirls shivered in their beds. When it continued, like the uproar that might herald the approach of some terrible invasion, they left their beds and crept to the head of the stairs. Below them, they saw a Roman scene. A lady somewhat their senior, in a nightgown, indiscreet and hilarious, bade them come down to a feast which she had made ready...
...several years subsequent to 1918 the air of Europe was filled with the clatter and clang of builders and the word Reconstruction was on every lip. While the world now hears less about the tremendous task of rearing new structures on Europe's ruins, the process is still under way; and now that the battered homes of refugees have been replaced, those who are directing the rehabilitation find an even more difficult duty in restoring the monuments of culture so uterly devastated during the four years...