Word: smatterer
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...spots of the world, he was listening to the rhythms of their speech and of the bands they danced to, transforming their fads and crazes into often mordant social comment. And into 500 or so of the best American songs ever written -- ballads, laments, sophisticated melodies, impudent scatter, chatter, smatter songs. The miracle of this four-CD set is that it makes a rich sampling of those songs sound so fresh and persuades the listener to hear the larky, witty words and the elegant harmonies as if for the first time...
...bruits her smatter...
Losing Duncan Blanchard on ineligibility and possibly Dick Bryan and Mark Tuttle on injuries, Mikkola will rely on John Bayliss, Joe Crowley, Harvard Peirce, and John Shillite to smatter the strong Tufts and Dartmouth aggregations...
pass." Today most U. S. tycoons possess at least a college smattering of French. But soon, if the trend of today continues, they will 'begin to smatter of Russian. .Conversely, Soviets may become Americanized, though their present aim is to pick Capitalism's brains for the glory of Communism...
These words were not balm for the soul of an Eli nor yet again would the strike with anything like smoothness on a son of Old Nassau. I asked several ladies of my acquaintance about this and their replies were polite enough; but usually they had a smatter of frankness in them. "You Yale men have no small talk", I remember being told. "And as for Princeton men--they have nothing but small talk...
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