Word: caper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accounts of the short, sharp encounter seemed to tally. Most of the 24,069 fans didn't even see it. Sportwriters, radio announcers and TV took a quick look, dismissed it casually as another cap-snatching caper of the kind that is a common occurrence at the Polo Grounds. But not Fred Boysen. He cried out for a doctor, was taxied to a hospital. There, according to an attendant, he achieved "a couple of really impressive faints." In less time than it takes to beat out a bunt, a lawyer was at his bedside, making talk of a damage...
...freshmen will get the jump on spring term social activities Saturday with a "Cupid's Caper" dance. Valentine's Day provides the motif for the weekend festivities and an excuse to crown a "Valentine Queen of the Dance." Four '52 men who organized themselves into a barbershop quartet for the Yale dance will perform again Saturday...
According to James Montgomery Flagg, "doing an autobiography is something like getting undressed in your bedroom window." In his caper-cutting autobiography, published last week, he appears in his bedroom window, and, in literary underwear striped with exclamation points, strikes many an exhibitionist pose...
Born. To Julius ("Groucho") Marx, 55, cigar-waving, eye-rolling youngest of the caper-cutting Marx trio, and Catherine ("Kay") Marvis, 25: their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Melinda. Weight...
...behind, trigger-tempered Wayne Sabin began swearing and banging balls out of the arena. At one point, Perry stopped the game, announced: "I won't play any more with a man who has such court manners." He was finally persuaded to go on, and lost. In another match, caper-cutting Frank Kovacs, who sometimes tries to outrage his opponents into bad playing, almost came to blows with Welby Van Horn, the defending champ...