Word: disporting
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...comply with the Mexican law that no official can be a presidential candidate. Last week Candidate Cardenas not only did nothing but, anxious above all to retain his reputation as a loyal henchman of Boss Calles, he left the Convention as soon as he was nominated, retired to disport himself harmlessly in Aguascalientes, famous for its thermal baths...
...Amis de Vivre, seclude themselves in the Norman village of Choseville. Less bold French sunlovers belong to the Société Naturiste, retire to the mid-Seine island of Médan ten miles northwest of Paris. There, in a four-year-old bungalow colony called Physiopolis, they disport themselves in brassières and ''modesty belts...
...enforcing such a regulation, finally, must be apparent to all, including the Drys. But at present, the Dry's votes are of concern to the administration, and the Commonwealth must pose as a guardian of morals, while under its very nose the group against which it has legislated will disport itself in the "taverns," and gladly contribute to the revenue Income. If the Democrats put through such an imbecile piece of legislation, they will make themselves the laughing-stock of the very young men whom they hope will cast a vote for their party when they reach the theoretically mature...
...pathetically represents the unattained and perhaps unattainable House spirit of general camaraderie and friendliness. The actual spirit of Eliot House is more nearly personified by the intelligence, independence, and withal occasional warm-heartedness of Professor Matthiessen's cat, which lives on terms of cold tolerance with the mice that disport themselves about the dining room...
Good Sport (Fox). Kept ladies, where the cinema is concerned, are the female equivalent of gangsters. An entire flock of them appears in this picture. They disport themselves in a mood of mean frivolity, snapping their shoulder straps and rude comments at each other, while making things difficult for the heroine who associates with them in order to learn about her husband's extra-marital amusements. She (Linda Watkins) sub-leases the apartment which her husband has provided for his mistress. While he and the mistress (Greta Nissen) are abroad, she falls in love with a sober-sided young...