Word: jabbers
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...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...
TWELVE AGAINST THE GODS-William Bolitho-Simon & Schuster ($4). "In reality, the whole history of human progress from the flint-jabber to standing room in the subway . . . is the result of two forms of effort, the guard and the search, made by the Home-stayer on the one hand, and by the bold affronter of the new on the other; that is, by the citizen and the adventurer." Upon this somewhat labored proposition Author Bolitho presents, en brochette, the characters of Alexander the Great, Catiline, Mahomet, Columbus, Cagliostro and Seraphina, Casanova, Charles XII of Sweden, Lola Montez, Napoleon...
...sleek black form. Game. He shot. A screech, not animal, and out of the branches flopped a Negress, dead, naked, devoid of tribal tattoos. Apparently apes had reared her from infancy. Clumsily she had learned to climb, to sleep hammock-wise across two stout branches, to eat fruits, to jabber, to live their life...