Word: blabbed
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Good-humored, large and shrewd, Ameringer's story does not idealize the proletariat, rings in no abstruse Marxian patter, no unbuttoned revolutionary blab. He makes a roaring farce out of the campaign of the poor to elect picturesque Jack Walton to the Governorship of Oklahoma; after election, the man of the people took to plus fours and golf with oil magnates...
TIME knows-or by this time should suspect-that these words, liberal, conservative and reactionary, have become blab sounds pure and simple...
...Ethiopians, as they left Captain Eden and proceeded to blab his solicitude for Haile Selassie's dignity, knew that both the Credentials Committee and the Steering Committee of the Assembly had been secretly considering British formulas to bar His Majesty from speaking before the League. It was now or never, and His Majesty might not even have been permitted to address the League Assembly last week had not impetuous Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera blazed: "I am unwilling that there should even be discussion of his undoubted right to speak...
...dropping one trick here, taking another there. Last week it dropped a trick in Ethiopia because a minor monarch got it into his kinky head that it would be good defensive strategy to rush the concession to signature at a critical juncture in his country's history and then blab about it to the world. Said a rueful Standard Oilman in Manhattan, in a matchless piece of understatement: "The publicity was handled badly...
...prize sucker-bait at "an exclusive gambling casino." First to be hooked is Chris Miller, part-owner of the gambling-purgatory. Buddy Miles is not aware that her best friend, Julia, estranged wife of a detective, was Miller's mistress, so when Julia jealously threatened to blab to Buddy and thereby spoil Miller's impending amour, Miller strangles his ex-mistress. Although the piece is called Night Hostess the principal role is that of Chris Miller, energetically, realistically done by Averell Harris...