Word: antics
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...arrival of important visitors to both schools pushes the two principals into a crack-brained collaboration. Anxious to hide the ministry's error, they synchronize their watches and plot a schedule for two guided tours, each designed to exhibit one school at a time. This antic scheme, played to the hilt, leads to chaos, rioting and some hilarious glimpses of English public-school traditions and traditionalists under stress...
After 20 games of give & take-mostly take-Schroeder made an antic gesture. Standing near the net between points, he bounced a ball against his head. The ball bounded over. Ted seemed to be saying: "Well, I can't get the ball over any other way.' McGregor won the first set, 13-11, then romped through two more, 6-3, 6-4, for the match. Since Sedgman had walloped an unsteady Tom Brown in an earlier match, the Australians, needing three-of-five to win, could just about crate up the old cup for shipment home...
...course of Kaye's antic fun with this plot, he makes an entrance with his head on a platter, gorges himself in fast motion at a feast, keeps a roomful of conspirators hidden from one another, tugs frantically at a sword that refuses to come out of its scabbard...
Tiara-bearing Betty Henderson, 72, antic favorite of Manhattan society columnists (she's the one who hoisted her leg on to a table at the opera opening last fall), wore a bandaged hand after a recreational workout at Packey O'Gatty's Gym. She busted it hoisting the jaw of her sparring partner...
People who go to hear Sir Thomas Beecham's brilliant conducting expect to experience some antic interruptions by the maestro, or at least to be distracted a little by the hoarse shouts he directs at his orchestra. Since 68-year-old Sir Thomas' second marriage, in 1945, they can also expect to find his wife, a pianist, as featured soloist...