Word: gab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bourgeois perils of running water, Melvyn Douglas and Paris. Unlike most pictures about Russian Reds, this one is neither crude clowning nor crude prejudice, but a literate and knowingly directed satire which lands many a shrewd crack about phony Five Year Plans, collective farms, Communist jargon and pseudo-scientific gab where it will do the most good-on the funny bone...
...good political business, but because he likes to know. To him speechmaking is no grave statement of solemn issues, but a chance to play his own tune on the great harp of an audience. And a harp is what his audience becomes. So infectious is his gifted gab that the soberest observers have found themselves swaying to the roll of it, while the Chandler fans yell "Tell it, Happy boy! Oh, tell...
...great night watch in Manhattan and all along the eastern seaboard have one companion that never goes to sleep on them. That cheerful stayer-up is WNEW's Milkman's Matinee, a 2-to-7 a. m. program of requested recordings, small-fry commercials and chummy gab conducted six mornings a week by a young announcer with a haberdasher's voice named Stan Shaw, "your very good friend, the Milkman...
...copies of what they had written against Franco during the civil war. By last week 35 of these journalists had been shot. Among the 35: Antonio Hermosilla, editor of Madrid's Leftist La Libertad; Modesto Sánchez Monreal, editor of Madrid's Leftish El Sol; Emilio Gabás, onetime editor of Madrid's El Socialista; Federico Moreno, editor of Zaragoza's Heraldo de Aragón; and Javier Bueno, who was editor of Oviedo's Avance and one of Spain's greatest newspapermen...
...chance because he had what we would call "the gift of gab" and, more important, what we would call "pull." He succeeded because he had courage and because he was lucky...