Word: pattered
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...collection includes a little of the patter, more of the lyric wisdom, and several of her compact sonnets. The patter is less flippant...
...they have no desire to see this. Try it once more and be converted. This is even true of some professional performances, but not a trace of it here. In fact it is a little too much when both male and female choruses enunciate so clearly that even the patter is distinct. But it is Since, the lyvles are so essential a part of these plays. It is most pleasant to be able to pick them up without effort, and with this in mind the producer has apparently put great stress upon this phase...
Wilbur at 8.20--"Paris". Irene Bordoni singing cute songs amid the patter of a thousand wisecracks...
...Dunninger, psychic condition meant nothing. In a biographical sketch which he contributed to Science and Invention Magazine the publication which sponsored his most recent strange doings, he calmly remarked: "Good 'patter' speeches well studied, and a smiling personality, spell success in magical performances...
...charming and well-bred a person as Daphne there was much to despise. For Daisy was not only ashamed of her lower middle class family in East Sheen, but pretended they lived abroad, well away from inquisitive friends. Her profession too-writing heart-to-heart patter for London Sunday supplements-seemed to her so painfully vulgar that she concealed it under the name of Marjorie Wynne. Not that it wasn't good of its kind ("Career or Babies for the Post-War Girl?"), and in great demand for its popular appeal, but that was just exactly why Daisy...