Word: chattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play by the nearest man. Playing for Brasenose College before a handful of fans scattered through bare wooden stands, Dawkins at first pulled a tyro's gaffes. He kept up a steady stream of American-style pepper talk until he learned that tradition allows only the captain to chatter encouragement. On defense, his jarring, head-on football tackles flattened any opposing player he seemed to suspect of having the ball, having had it, or about to get it, but he let the play get away time and again. Sniffed the Oxford Mail: "The subtleties of positioning have escaped...
...Drop of a Hat. Ranging between satire and whimsy, the educated "afterdinner farrago" of two English song-and-chatter specialists provides one of the gayest evenings on Broadway...
...cockney-like drawl of Old Australia; a ticket taker at Melbourne's Flinders Street station is apt to be a shawled Lithuanian woman who speaks no English at all. In the heart of Sydney's roistering Kings Cross district, now a maze of cosmopolite cuisine and chatter, Old Australians crowd into the posh Chelsea restaurant to be attended by an Italian headwaiter, a French chef, Hungarian, Czech, Yugoslav and Bulgarian waiters. A Melbourne food store that once sold two kinds of bread-dark or white-now sells 97 varieties...
...Drop of a Hat. A highly engaging evening with two Englishmen who sing and chatter with the exquisite timing of the solar system and the teamwork of the Lunts...
...Drop of a Hat. A delightful evening with two Englishmen who sing and chatter with the exquisite timing of the solar system and the teamwork of the Lunts...