Word: chatterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Much of the skill in this game seemed to be the ability to intimidate your opponents by 'keeping the chatter up.' Every member of a team, whether on or off the field, appeared to be offering a constant supply of advice or ridicule, and if this did not achieve its original object it certainly kept the crowd amused...
Love Happy (United Artists) is a Marx Brothers comedy with too little of Groucho's irreverent wit and too much of Chico's irrelevant Italianate chatter. It gets most of its laughs from a welcome abundance of Harpo's funniest clowning in years...
Even though his show is all chatter and records, Rudy insists that he is no disc jockey. "It's just an opportunity for me to bring up provocative things in show business," he explains. "It discusses why some people are successful and some are not -originally, I wanted to call it So You Want to Be a Star?" The new, kittenishly pedantic Vallee style ("Radio as I knew it is, alackaday, no more, no more") is a frank imitation of one of Vallee's old teachers, Yale's William Lyon Phelps ("one of the most unrestrained, lackadaisical...
...foothills of southern Formosa's terraced mountains, youthful soldiers shout "Shat Sha!" (Kill! Kill!) as they lunge at practice dummies with bayonets. The huge military training camp at Feng-shan echoes with machine-gun chatter, and squads of infantrymen work under live ammunition fire. Fengshan's combat course is modeled after the training system used in the U.S. in World War II, and the camp's officers call it "the cradle of the new Chinese army...
...crisis comes when the woman reaches 40 or 50 and her children are grown. She then resorts to "bridge, chatter, shopping expeditions, aimless clubs and, in extreme cases, to alcohol to gain an illusory sense of activity...