Word: jabber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shrewd, the Herr Doktor has written not about zoos but about East Africa (the once German colony which the Fatherland hopes to regain), has sandwiched into his Christmas book phonograph records full of the beat of East African drums, the jabber of natives, the roars, yelps and grunts of East African beasts...
...chance to show that he is not a coward all the time. A silly but kinetic melodrama, War Correspondent is distinguished by the presence of the most revolting Chinaman who has ever appeared in cinema. Fang (Tetsu Komai) is so horrible that his prisoners begin to squeal and jabber as soon as they look at him. His table manners are such that when he gobbles the hindquarters of a pig he seems to be a cannibal...
They accused Miss Marlowe (as she later learned) of stopping the flow of water through a nearby hose. When Miss Marlowe made no reply to their jabber they pitched into her with their fists, also whanged across her face and body with sticks. A third Japanese, who spoke English, soon appeared...
...like monkeys. Sometimes a fast-running foot goes through a net, annoys box-holding spectators. Unlike players in Havana. those in Chicago are all young: the oldest is 23, the youngest 17. Besides sleeping all in one room, they eat together, go to the theatre together twice a week, jabber constantly in their native tongues, seldom consort with other than their fellow jai alai players...