Word: clattering
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...South was a-clatter with new building. Its 1940 construction was $1,534,350,000, an all-time high; 1941 would be even bigger. Chosen because of its climate and cheap land for 60% of the nation's 100-odd big new military camps, the South was making money fast out of building them, out of feeding and entertaining the soldiers who arrived daily...
...clatter of hammers and the fresh smell of unpainted Virginia pine filled the White House grounds last week. Beyond the north lawn and across broad Pennsylvania Avenue, along Lafayette Park, workmen were knocking together grandstands. There on Jan. 20 the President and as many U. S. citizens as can be accommodated will watch the inaugural parade of Term III: a two-hour procession of the nation's armed forces, including a mechanized unit from Fort Knox...
...occasional meal, to browse in the largest collection of current magazines in New England, and to buy "Harvard Faculty Special Cigars" (15c a piece or 2 for 25c.) The Tomb of King Tut atmosphere is gone, and the chatter of false uppers is echoed by the clatter of mah jong tiles upstairs. There is activity at the Faculty Club-it has really become a social center for the Harvard professors and their families. For the first time since the University faculty began rivaling the French foreign legion in size and diversity, their club is performing its intended function...
...joint's musical policy in the reverential hands of John Henry Hammond Jr., arch-hierophant of U. S. jazz. High Priest Hammond made Cafe Society one of the three or four spots in Manhattan where good jazz could be heard, popularized that most esoteric of forms, the ritualistic clatter-bang of boogie-woogie pianism...
...Quadrangle of the University of Pennsylvania one morning last week rang the cheerful clatter of an ancient hand bell that once summoned scholars to class. That homely sound opened the celebration of the 200th birthday of a homely old university. To the shirt-sleeved sons of Penn seated in camp-meeting chairs on the Quadrangle grass, it spoke of Founder Ben Franklin, of Philadelphia, cradle of U. S. freedom, of old-fashioned sanity. But the ancient bell merely interrupted, did not dispel the hush of uncertainty and gloom that hung over Penn's Bicentennial...