Word: clatterings
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...lush old 18th Century, when Venice was all the world's nightclub, the best parties of all were thrown at the Renaissance-style Palazzo Labia, just off the Grand Canal. To avoid the clatter of dishwashing at his fancier banquets, Host Labia frequently ordered his soiled gold tableware chucked into the canal at the end of each course. (The ugly gossip was that he had laid a stout fish net on the canal bottom beforehand.) The Labias and their dinnerware have long since passed into oblivion, but last week the Labia palace was all lit up again...
Modern Wigglesworth, Straus, Lionel, and Mower were built to close the Yard off from noisy Harvard Square. The subway runs under Wigglesworth, but men get used to this and the other clatter from street traffic which reaches all four halls...
...Book of Common Prayer, the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Episcopal Bishop of California, intoned the funeral service, without sermon or eulogy. At that moment, in the grimy office of the Examiner, a few blocks away, and in Hearst-papers across the land, typewriters and linotypes stilled their clatter, and for a few minutes the plants lay in silence. William Randolph Hearst had stopped the presses for the last time...
...frontier has new sounds: the hum and roar and clatter of powerful machines; for the sagebrush country around
...Jangle & Clatter. The news traversed Washington like an electric current. Telephones jangled and teletypes clattered. Limousines drew up before the State Department building and disgorged briefcase-toting diplomats of the 15 nations fighting, with the U.S., in Korea. In map-hung conference room 5105, where they had been meeting twice a week for months to be briefed on the progress of the war, the diplomats were briefed on the progress of the peace negotiations. On the same afternoon-Wednesday-President Truman summoned his National Security Council, including Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Defense George Marshall and seven other...