Word: gibberish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pushed and got entangled in their hurry to get out. Despite the apparent confusion, they jumped with great speed: one man every 75 feet, all out within 25 seconds. As they went over, they shouted what sounded like gibberish to Capa. Perhaps it was the paratroops' jumping word-"Geronimo...
...baseball in general. Yet colored ball could have been good copy at any time since 1885, when the first professional Negro nine was made up of waiters from Long Island's tony Argyle Hotel. To be acceptable as opponents for local semi-pros, they posed as Cubans, babbled gibberish on the field, called themselves the Cuban Giants...
...more foolish form of word game, while an older audience will have new cause to regret the Advocate's inability to refuse the mediocre material contributed by the literary elite. Even Reed Pfeuffer's provocative illustration fails to justify the space consumed by the overly obvious gibberish it illustrates. Day Lee has retold the story about the boy and the B.B. gun without sufficient penetration or originality to excuse the return to a high school theme. His small boys are as stereotyped as their actions, and his dialogue is inadequate to indicate the tumult Lee tries to create...
...think that's silly. All Flip said was that he had a cute babe with him, and that's the straight stuff. Dowst got a first sentence that made sense, and then dissolved into gibberish. There's still time. Lot's beat those stuck-up Boston papers. Let's go to press...
Obviously, the offerings of a Gutbucket Gus are gibberish to the uninitiated. What the Sweet Singers need by way of introduction is someone who can play good jazz on something approaching their own terms. And Lunceford, Basie, and Ellington are the men for that. A comparison of their recordings of popular songs with the effusions of the Sweet, Swing set is eye-opening. The gulf between Ellington's "Take the 'A' Train," and Miller's is immeasurable. The Ellington band's complete grasp of the spirit of the thing, its spontaneity, its "soul," if you will, make Miller's version...