10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TICKTACK MEN»
Discover the use of
ticktack men in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ticktack men and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Rivers of Damascus and Other Stories
He would give his bet to the head of the ticktack men, and that would be coded
across to a runner in the Big Ring. Sometimes the Big Ring would ticktack across
bets to the Silver Ring, for though pounds and fifties and hundreds are bet in ...
Boolcies (legal at British tracks) and their ticktack men are a colorful lot, even in
black and white. As they try to attract bettors, gesturing in their own sign language
and shouting an arcane gambler's lingo, their wizened faces and shrewd ...
3
More Than Words: An Introduction to Communication
But thereare moresubtlesigns, such as thesteepling offingers toexpress
confidence.And forsome people, gestures arepartoftheir job –the ticktack men
ataracecourse, signalingbetsandresults. There are some complete languages of
gesture ...
Graeme Burton, Richard Dimbleby, 2002
4
Interpersonal Skills: Goal Directed Behaviour at Work
Thereare, however, manyemblems thatarespecific toonegroup of communicators(
for example, ticktack men on aracecourse)orthe membersof one culture.
Outsiders may notbeableto translate the meaning of such emblems or may
interpret ...
A troop of Ukrainian pilgrims shuffled their way downstairs and then crawled
between the bishop's skirts to get under the altar and kiss the star. They came up
crossing like ticktack men. A scowling cowled monk hissed at me. I looked blank.
When we returned to the wharf two ticktack men approached us. They wanted us
to go back with them and 'have a nice Irish girl'. We told them that the boat would
soon be sailing; anyway it was too early in the day. They insisted. They had a ...
7
Shalom bomb: scenes from my life
I told him about all my uncles, always on the make: bookmakers, ticktack men,
gamblers, greengrocers, con-men. I told him about my uncle Joe who had a
dance band in Amsterdam before the war. "Did you ever hear of Joe Kops and
the ...
8
The Irish way: a walk through Ireland's past and present
Up in the stands their confederates, the white-gloved ticktack men, wigwag
signals as they perceive the odds changing from their perspective among the
horseplayers. A racegoer has the choice of betting with a bookie — whose
exchequer ...
Robert Emmett Ginna, 2003
I thought the dog track was pretty exciting in those days, what with the ticktack
men in their white gloves and their own cryptic semaphore, the seedy-looking
weasel-faced men and dumpy women in make-up that had been chucked on in ...
10
England '91 on $50 a Day
There is also a replica of a weighing-in room, plus explanations of the signs used
by the ticktack men who keep the on-course bookies informed of changes in the
price of bets. A continuous 53-minute audio- visualpresentation shows races ...
Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince, 1990
