Word: caper
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...George Washington, Henry Ford, Britain's Kings, Thomas E. Dewey, Premier Bogdan Filoff of Bulgaria and a few million more men the world over, Franklin Roosevelt is a Mason. The most sinister implications of his membership to Americans is his support of orphanages and charities, his eligibility to caper about in the red fez of a Shriner...
...Sunday School men's Bible class held in the church basement. Around an old borrowed piano the class sang hymns before & after the weekly lecture, McDaniel's rolling bass harmonizing with Donnell's baritone. Serious, somewhat prissy Bible-Teacher Donnell permitted no antics, and caper-cutting Pupil McDaniel was a good boy in class. When the church trustees needed money, they raised it by holding humorous mock trials in which the legal chums and such pupils as square-jibbed, religious Branch Rickey, vice president of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, debated such subjects...
...this eupeptic program were the mutilated soldiers taking the mountain air outside their hospital. Nor had the Propaganda Ministry expected the party to reach the strident high tension it attained. Best expression of Germany's war spirit was the favorite dance, a nameless, aimless jitterbug caper. Said one German girl: "I guess you could call it a war dance...
Rangers of Fortune (Paramount) is a dreamy description of three restless roustabouts who cut many a lusty caper in the Great Southwest during the '70s. One is a down-at-the-heel ex-West Pointer (Fred MacMurray), one a sharpshooting, mustachioed Mexicano (Gilbert Roland), one a leather-faced old pug (Albert Dekker). Together they perform the most prodigious cinema escapades since the wall-scaling, sword-swishing days of Douglas Fairbanks-escaping from a firing squad, terrorizing a small frontier village in Texas, erasing a horde of badmen who murdered the grandfather of a hardy little moppet (Betty Brewer) whom...
...directs in entertainingly unorthodox manner a very orthodox group of stage people through the intricate contortions of a melodrama to end all melodramas. Bank robbers, policemen, governors, midgets, and fascinatingly naive young ladies put themselves completely in the hands of the Tavern's unidentified guest, and he has them caper about in the fashion most likely to please his laughing audience--and with no other evident intent...