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...When a blab-mouthed Congressman leaked this news to the press, the Air Force let out an anguished cry. For months it has been shifting the big planes from base to base, doing all it could to make its handful of B-36s look like a mighty fleet. Even some Congressmen were shocked by the leak. Said Senator Dick Russell, who presided over the MacArthur hearing and did his level best to protect official secrets: "It is difficult to conceive of such utter lack of responsibility . . . [This] might well be the cause of World...
...knickknack, considering the nature of its subject and the lateness of the season. Set in a Nazi prison barracks full of U.S. airmen, toward the end of World War II, it mixes a good deal of earthy comedy with lively if commonplace melodrama. Somebody in the barracks is plainly blabbing the prisoners' small secrets to the Nazis. And when there is something really serious to blab about - when a new prisoner confides that he set a Nazi train on fire - the informer's identity becomes crucial...
...Whole Gamut. Always reaching for more laughs, Berle has even tried stooping for them. At Chicago's Palace in 1933, he broke records for five weeks but he outraged the late Chicago Daily News Critic Lloyd Lewis, who found him a "blab-mouthed, satyr-eyed kid" who "toys with physiology, pathology and pruriency, tossing them about with all the freedom of a delinquent boy." On television, acutely conscious of his juvenile following and of the strait-laced National Broadcasting Co., Berle keeps it clean...
...Blab Brothers. Editor Markel then went after the panderers to "national ignorance and apathy"-the "radio rattlers," "newspaper know-it-alls," "sob sisters" and "blab brothers." Said he: "There is a great gullibility . . . about a prevalent radio and newspaper type-the Keyhole Kommentator. Even though his specialties are trivia and truffles, he does not hesitate to deal with tremendous things. . . . The formula is an ingenious one. Our commentator will report (A) that Gladys Gorgeous is going to be divorced next week, and (B) that Yugoslavia will attack us in six months. Comes next week and Gladys . . . gets her divorce...
...some armed with revolvers, to nose out back-alley stills, track down highjackers, and publicize ceiling violators. They seemed to find plenty to justify the American's screaming red headlines: highjackings running up to $100,000 a month, a wave of liquor-store holdups, petty racketeers glad to blab about Michigan farmers who "buy anything short of a hair rinse," bellhops getting $12-15 a Pint from hotel guests...