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Word: frolic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the snow frolic was ended, the Club voted to adjourn to its particular entry only to find the entry door bolted. Appeals to lighted windows were so intensified by the steadily dropping temperature that soon the door was opened from within, and the Polar Bare Club filed inside formulating a program of revenge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strictly Speaking | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

...keng, a Chinese creature of General Doihara, closed the week's Oriental frolic on dangerous ground by proclaiming "autonomous" not the five enormous North China provinces but 25 medium-sized North China districts with a combined population of 5,000,000. He called his new "Government" the Autonomous Federation for Joint Defense Against Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA-JAPAN: Frolic With Danger | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

Both Winthrop and Dunster have engaged syncopating outfits of Jimmie Carmedy, but Jimmy himself will wield the baton at the Puritan frolic. Undaunted, the Dunster committee has announced that their orchestra will be under the direction of Karl Kunze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Dance | 10/23/1935 | See Source »

...Puritan authorities claimed to have a claim on Carmody for the evening and several Dunstermen seemed to think a Jekyll-Hyde act probable. The twin brother hypothesis was quelled by Jimmie himself, who finally let it be known he was going to spend the evening at the Puritan frolic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jekyll-Hyde to Perform as Two Houses Hire Same Band | 10/18/1935 | See Source »

...brave piping of calliopes filled the ears and the bright glare of rockets filled the eyes of some 3,000,000 U. S. country folk celebrating Fair Week. September would not see the end of this rural revelry, for the South, busy with its tobacco and cotton, cannot frolic much before frost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Rural Revelry | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

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