Word: friskier
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...famous people, have passionate affairs with fascinating men, and in the end fall madly in love and live happily ever after." Identification is made easy because Rogers' heroines - and her heroes for that matter - are at worst stick figures to hang costumes and projections on, at best somewhat friskier avatars of poor sat-upon Jane Eyre and surly Rochester...
...protégé, who is also a White House aide; a male secretary and talented ghostwriter reminiscent of Robert Craft, Igor Stravinsky's invaluable chronicler; and a young bearded man, who is either Lumen's grandson or his natural son. In friskier days, Humanitarian Sam forced himself on his daughter-in-law, and the issue is in doubt...
...back-patters were farmers and farm wives, members of the National Farmers Union. They were aging people, mostly-farming has little appeal for young men nowadays, and the average U.S. farmer is about 50. But rarely had Carnegie Hall held a friskier audience...
...Senator Robert Hendrickson, with the lukewarm backing of a Clean Government bloc, is running for Governor against bouncing, bumptious ex-Governor Harold Hoffman, one of the minor phenomena of Jersey politics. Reviled, threatened with impeachment, pronounced politically dead after his meddling with the Hauptmann case, bullocky Mr. Hoffman is friskier than ever. He counters the charge that he is a Hague Republican with the retort: "I like Hague as much as Haig & Haig. I take both of them when I want them but neither is my master." Most discouraging of all to Pastor Clee and the Clean Government League...
Strike Up the Band will be popularly described in weeks to come as the latest Gershwin musicomedy, which means of course that Brother George Gershwin wrote the music, Brother Ira the words. The brothers are to be heard in their friskier vein-you will discover among their tunes no such aphrodisiacs as "Do It Again" and "The Man I Love." But they make you temporarily forget such omissions with their chipper satires ("Typical Self-Made American," "Mademoiselle from New Rochelle"), and there is one spasm of trumpeting ("I've Got a Crush on You") which threatens the Negro monopoly...