Word: cavorting
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...long may we cavort...
...prefer watching professionals exert themselves, the Braves and the Red Sox cavort at least once daily, the horses run every day except Sunday, and the midget auto cars are only a short way out of town...
Before the first Yale batsman faces Harvard this afternoon 5000 men will march, or cavort about Soldiers Field. They are members of all the classes holding reunions: some are here for their third-year reunion, some for their sixth, some for their fiftieth. One might assume that such a parade is at least as important as the athletic contest it precedes. Indeed, it should be. It is a homecoming celebration...
While the young sulk, the elders cavort. Papa Pomfret has an obliging mistress and Mama Weatherby flirts freelance. Each laments the drab respectability of the new generation. "Sometimes," says Mama Weatherby of her son, "I almost wonder if he knows the facts of life even. You see he respects girls so!" And Papa Pomfret wryly complains that he "has to implore his child not to be home at certain hours...
...though his big scenes are sometimes florid enough, Composer Blitzstein's version of the Alabama Hubbards is fundamentally comic. Regina much less suggests a social critic excoriating an emerging class of plunderers than a first-rate showman exhibiting a prize assortment of hellions. Blitzstein's Hubbards cavort the whole time they conspire, and the general effect is of exuberance rather than tension...