Word: blabbing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prize sucker-bait at "an exclusive gambling casino." First to be hooked is Chris Miller, part-owner of the gambling-purgatory. Buddy Miles is not aware that her best friend, Julia, estranged wife of a detective, was Miller's mistress, so when Julia jealously threatened to blab to Buddy and thereby spoil Miller's impending amour, Miller strangles his ex-mistress. Although the piece is called Night Hostess the principal role is that of Chris Miller, energetically, realistically done by Averell Harris...
Sylvia appears in the camp to torture him afresh. Her incredible malice brings about a bedroom scene where he strikes a drunken general in pajamas. For the troops' morale he must be removed, but still he will not clear his name, will not "blab." "There used to be," he tells his own superior, an old friend, "in families of position, a certain ... on the part of the man ... a certain . . . call it parade...
...Lincoln, a big, slow-spoken man, slick at hunting and swapping, but not clever, moves his family up to Knob Creek on the Louisville-Nashville pike. Young Abe walks four miles to school, a one-room school with no windows, a "blab" school where you say your lessons to yourself out loud until time to recite to the Irish Catholic teacher. At home little Abe is chore-boy, toting water, billets, ashes and the things for beer-making. He rides (without pants, he's a "shirttail boy") the horse drawing the "bull-tongue" plow; he tends his father's stallion...