Word: backchat
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...another, Kurnitz' shock gags require the physical presence of the actors for their effect. But in the film version the actors are not actually there, the shock often fails to come through, the laughs often fail to come off. Still, there are a few bits of memorably daffy backchat (Trustee's son: "Mother has a head on her shoulders." Agent who knows the old battle-ax: "Absolutely! I have seen it"). And there is Kay Kendall...
...enjoyably folksy songs and dances are the best part of an evening that is, after never less than indifferent, and somehow never dull. Rumor has it that a new ballet will be inserted, and this sounds like a fine idea. If enough desultory backchat is cut out to make room for it, if director Vincent J. Donehue can do something about several performances, if the lyrics to more of the songs become audible, if a great deal of miscellaneous tinkering is successfully accomplished, Juno might be okay...
...Liverpool Diocesan Review, the Right Rev. Albert Augustus David, Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, explained why baseball is "unsuited to the English temperament." Excerpts: "The backchat and calls of both players and spectators at a baseball match in America are something to be remembered when the play is forgotten. So far, English spectators of baseball have only learned the elementary calls of the game. If they ever learn the full phraseology of American baseball, we do not think "it will be long before its undesirable effects are seen at Association football matches...
...were alarmed, afraid that Grandpa would change his will in her favor. Sure enough, Grandpa and Louise took to each other instantly, soon became great pals. Though Louise was a Manhattanite she found herself quickly at home on the farm, won the approval of the neighbors by her ready backchat and friendly ways. She won more than approval from Guy Crane, a rising young married farmer, and from Simon, Grandpa's taciturn farmhand: but she kept things fairly well under control. To make the plotters show their hand Grandpa pretended to go crazy. Unmasked at last, they were shown...
...found her good company and never stayed away for long. Her two principal rivals were Italian Hortense Mancini, French Louise de Quérouailles. With Louise, an aristocrat who constantly tried to come the great lady over her, Nell never hit it off very well: when it came to backchat Louise was no match for her. Once Nell's coach was held up in Oxford by a threatening mob who thought Louise was inside. Nell put her curly head out the window, cried: "Be civil, good people, be civil! I am not she. I am the Protestant whore...