Word: gibberish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night club where Darryl Zanuck spotted them, hired them as an adjunct to the hilarious musical Sing Baby Sing. There, especially in a Jekyll & Hyde number, they displayed their peculiar talents to perfection-part eccentric dancing, part owlish mimicry, part brutality, part a musical patter of song, pun and gibberish. One in a Million followed, then On the Avenue, which should establish them as top-flight cinecomedians. They have a normal brother and sister named Gertrude and George. They like gambling, but not together because "that's bad luck." Al is the only married Ritz Brother. Jimmy hankers occasionally...
This had to mean something because it was a President who spoke, otherwise it was almost Irish gibberish. If no further step is taken, the "dominion status" of the Free State under the Crown-which in any case does not exclude the right of secession-is left pretty much in its gossamer status...
...high tide of U. S. tourism during the 1920's, the lunatic fringe was the Paris group that published the magazine, transition. Passionate toadies to European culture, Editors Eugene Jolas and Elliot Harold Paul printed in 1927 the first fragments of great James Joyce's work in gibberish, provisionally titled Work in Progress, transition writers, uncertain of society's appreciation of their real personalities, thereupon took over Joyce's experimental style to conceal murky thinking behind an inscrutable jabberwocky...
TRANSITION'S editorial heading for its stories was PARAMYTHS, presumably meaning disordered or abnormal myths. That the sane human mind instinctively tries to communicate intelligible ideas and that the production of long stretches of gibberish is extremely difficult was proved by the fact that most of TRANSITION'S prose-writers kept breaking through into something like sense and good syntax...
...still a literary boulevardier, fond of the applause of women and a crony of the late great writer Marcel Proust. Implicit in The Tumult & the Shouting is Slocombe's own realization that not only have his captains and kings departed but that their tumult was a weary gibberish, hardly destined to outlive them. Bravely he concludes that they had "a common touch of frustrated nobility ... of genius," that "they are men like no other men who have gone before or who may come here after...