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Carnival time brought no carnival to Athens last week. The people did not, in the fashion of happier years, cavort through the streets behind the gaitanaki (mock donkey formed by two clowns). The season brought only reminders of the fact that Greece was one of Europe's unhappiest nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: O Aghelastos | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...long may we cavort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

While the main characters cavort in the back room, a love story goes on in front. Robert Young and Barbara Hale manage to combine good looks with meaningless going-on in a bedroom chase that alternates with under-the-table larceny. Miss Hale is pretty enough to twist the arm of any card-sharp, which she manages to do with great proficiency. "Lady Luck" won't teach you any new tricks, but it's fun watching other suckers suffer on the screen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lady Luck and The Verdict | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Could it be that you are letting imagination cavort and are picturing John Lewis burning in the flames of hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1947 | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

Touch football with a dash of color was the general impression of some two-score early birds and class-cutters who journeyed down to Soldiers Field in the morning mists yesterday to watch the Los Angeles Rams cavort around in their six-tone practice uniforms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rams Take It Easy | 11/22/1946 | See Source »

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