Word: coltishly
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Thanks, pardner, for including me as one of the "younger writers" of westerns. You make me feel coltish, grey-haired...
...Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham; Capitol-EMI, 3 LPs). The first six of the twelve famous symphonies Haydn wrote under the sponsorship of London Impresario J. P. Salomon in the late years of his life. Conductor Beecham gives them a fine, forthright reading that underscores their coltish exuberance, plays down their romantic charms...
Snowbound at a rural bus stop, Marilyn continues her feeble efforts to escape. When fatherly Arthur O'Connell cannot put a snaffle on his coltish pal, the muscular bus driver (Robert Bray) finally takes Murray outside and gives him the larruping he has been asking for. The fight is the film's catalyst. From it, Murray learns that a man has not always "gotta right to the things he loves," while Marilyn discovers, to her surprise, that his ear-splitting exuberance is just a protective screen around a small...
...years since Peter Townsend had first gone to serve his King, the coltish teen-ager in the corridor had grown into a woman fully conscious of her position and proud of its prerogatives. Warmly magnetic when she wants to be, she can stiffen into icy frigidity at any affront to the protocol she feels is her due. Even her best friends call her "Ma'am," and a brash acquaintance who once inquired solicitously after the health "of your father," was instantly frozen with the reply, "I presume you mean His Majesty...
...young giraffes, in coltish mood, cross necks as men cross swords, and duel off their excess energy...