Rackety

When the memoirs of Miss Pamela Andrews appeared, the future biographer of her doubly supposititious brother was a not very young man of thirty-three, who had written a good many not very good plays, had contributed to periodicals, and had done a little work at the Bar, besides living, at least till his marriage and it may be feared later, an exceedingly "rackety" life. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

In her memoir she describes her career as "rackety". ❋ Stephen Moss (2010)

Perhaps surprisingly, in view of her childless marriages and rackety life, Kar seems to have been fond of children, and produced some lively family groups, in which all participants seem happily and messily engaged. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The rackety blowup over Derek Jeter's scheduled non-appearance at Tuesday's Major League Baseball All-Star Fashion Catwalk in Phoenix before the game, I was still hopeful Jeter would jump out of a cake at home plate with Manny Ramirez has proven one thing: Some people sure like telling other people they need to show up to stuff. ❋ Unknown (2011)

How did a law clerk cum journalist cum parliamentary reporter with a rackety background become the literary colossus who embodied the Victorian era and invented Christmas? ❋ Unknown (2011)

Boyd has described it as an "emotional, dramatic and rackety journey" through the "long and tumultuous life" of a writer, Logan Mountstuart. ❋ Kate Kellaway (2010)

I wanted to invent my own exemplary figure who could seem almost as real as the real ones and whose life followed a similar pattern: boarding school, university, Paris in the 20s, the rise of Fascism, war, post-war neglect, disillusion, increasing decrepitude, and so ona long, varied and rackety life that covered most of the century. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Swede Ralston was always pretty rackety as well as skilled. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fallada's writing and rackety lifestyle had resulted more than once in interrogation by the Gestapo. ❋ Sue Arnold (2010)

In the good old days or were they the bad ones? the twice yearly dishing out of gongs with exotic, anachronistic names was colourful, class-ridden and decidedly rackety, like much else in post-imperial British public life. ❋ Unknown (2011)

There is a lot of noise in this city of ours, what with sirens screaming, buses screeching and LOUD music blaring out of headphones on already rackety subway cars. ❋ Sumathi Reddy (2011)

"I like titles," she says with a grin, over coffees in a rackety West End café. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is a rusty, rackety old junk heap on four bald tires that makes the most amazing noises as it wheezes its way to my future alma mater. ❋ Rick Springfield (2010)

For a similarly rackety account of life in the art world, and particularly in the loucher areas of London ' s East End, Laura K. Jones ' s " A Hedonist ' s Guide to Art " Filmer, £ 15 brings together essays by more than 60 artists, dealers, critics and gallerists. ❋ Andrew McKie (2010)

People don't so much watch his rackety shows about Arctic exploration as endure them; hunkered down in his studio, George is known to slumber off during screenings of the films he made as a younger man, and his TV company, CKCK, will shortly be dumping all his old videotapes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In 1946, Powell enrolled at Alabama State Teachers College, playing with the 'Bama State Collegians before leaving town with the trumpeter King Kolax's rackety travelling band. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Leddy's show may have been a better fit with the rackety hidden spaces of Glasgow's Citizens theatre, where it was briefly seen at the start of 2009, but this venue does offer its own spin on hidden truths and deceit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We have a very rackety, partisan, sometimes very intrusive press. ❋ Alexandra Alter (2010)