Word: frolic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance. All the dancers made sure, swift pictures, designed by George Balanchine, the crack Russian choreographer whom the young sponsors imported. But critical members of the Hartford audience agreed that Edward Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein needed more time to perfect their dream of a perfect ballet. Undistinguished dancers can frolic in a burlesque like Alma Mater. But earlier in the same evening a more conventional and exacting Mozartiana made it apparent that a year is not long enough to build up a technic comparable to that of the long-trained Russians...
...earth. Take, for instance, the Daily News Building and the Tribune Tower in Chicago. In both instances the passerby gets the effect that the structure is poised upon one toe and eager to float or fly. . . . Hood could do you a skyscraper which was ready for a fight or frolic...
...packed all such material together in high, solid dams (see cut). Their houses, too, they built of sticks & mud, above water on solid foundations down to pond bottom. la oven-shaped, mud-floored rooms about 3 ft. square, 2ft. high many a young beaver was born, to swim and frolic without care until in the summer of its third year it was ready to leave home, set up for itself...
Most Governors' Conferences, started as annual affairs in 1908 by President Theodore Roosevelt, are more fun & frolic than work & worry. Last week's twenty-fifth meeting was no exception for the 14 Governors who enjoyed the hospitality of California's James (''Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. Monkeyshines began when their special train was playfully "held up" at midnight as it crossed the State line. At Truckee, Calif, there was a rodeo and Idaho's Charles Ben Ross exhibited his skill with a lariat, ended by roping Governor Rolph around the neck. There was a picnic...
...Portland. Legion conventions are four days of fun & frolic for middle-aged men who keep young on martial memories. As at their 13 other conventions, thousands of legionaries, converging in Portland, will dress up in bright uniforms and, behind blaring bands, parade past the Multnomah Stadium packed with 35,000 admiring citizens. Meetings will be held in the 16-year-old auditorium on Clay Street which will seat 4,000 delegates. For the convention's entertainment the Oregon Legislature voted $25,000. Portland businessmen made up an additional play pot. As a courtesy the Navy is sending two cruisers...