Word: jabbers
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...strangely enough, if Franklin Roosevelt had last week ventured to ad dress Friends," the he would aviation have been industry as sure of a "My jabber of cheery answering echoes. For, after putting the finishing touches on the ultimate reform to grow out of the 1934 unpleasantness, he had brought into being a Civil Aeronautics Authority independent of all other branches of the Government except the White House itself, headed by a business man, peopled with non-political experts, and charged with "encouragement and development of an air-transportation system properly adapted to the present and future needs...
...Park Square the early June drizzle has become a light rain and the steady pattering of the drops distorts the reflected lights on the asphalt pavement. It is show time; people scurry and jabber of Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, and perfectly marvelous seats for "Candida...
...horror pictures of medieval Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Bruegel, through the engravings of Hogarth, to the comic cartoons of Rube Goldberg and the frustrated drawings of James Thurber. Prominently displayed as examples of fantastic art were copies of Edward Lear's Nonsense Rhymes, Lewis Carroll's Jabber-wacky. This week's exhibition did not disdain the art of the frankly insane. There was a panel of wild designs by a crazed French banknote engraver, a drawing of something like a perverted rooster from the inspired brush of an ecstatic Czech...
...Jabber-in-Chief is Japan's great Imperialist Railroader-Diplomat Yosuke Matsuoka, recently made president of the S. M. R. (TIME, Aug. 12). He ordered garlic issued to his 2,000 track workers "to give them strength." Springing to action at 5 a. m. 96 gangs had the entire 150 miles of track narrowed to S. M. R. gauge in three hours. According to Mr. Matsuoka, his all-steel, air-conditioned, streamlined Asia Express will now average 63 m. p. h. up the 600-mile spear from Dairen to Harbin...
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...