GR translation: their typewriter keys chattery as their pearlies

[David Morris]

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> On 1/5/2012 3:47 AM, Mike Jing wrote:
>> P79.30-34  Secretaries in woolen shawls and rubber galoshes shiver with the winter cold being inhaled through the madhouse’s many crevices, their typewriter keys chattery as their pearlies. Maud Chilkes, who looks from the rear rather like Cecil Beaton’s photograph of Margot Asquith, sits dreaming of a bun and a cup of tea.
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>> I thought here the "pearlies" refers to teeth.