Word: frolic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Giant of the West" seemed to agree that he was indeed feeling better last week. He continued to frolic with increasing enthusiasm on his New York Stock Exchange (TIME, Aug. 8). After taking a one-day breathing spell, the market boiled for the rest of the week, stocks & bonds soared. From their Depression lows rail shares (Dow-Jones averages) were up a thumping 116%, industrials 73%, utilities 73%-Bonds rose 17%. Brokerage houses with staffs geared to drowsy 700,000-share days joyously recalled old employes to help handle the fat business of 5,500,000 shares daily. Wall Street...
...autographs out of letters, priced and sold them for a quid (pound), but his mother's autographs he kept. Smart again, the Prince while serving under a British naval captain chosen by Queen Mary, gave his superior officers the slip in California, dashed off for a night of frolic in Hollywood, later escaped from the Royal Navy altogether by contracting "chronic seasickness." Next put to work at the Foreign Office and diligently tutored by its bureaucrats, H. R. H. developed symptoms so alarming that his withdrawal from the Foreign Office became imperative." It must always be borne in mind...
...Catholic was driven from his home or church in Italy last week. To dramatize the passive struggle of the Church, Pius XI suspended all open air religious services and processions. Thus on Corpus Christi Day (which exuberant Italians have always celebrated in the street with the romp and frolic of a Mardi Gras fête) the only Catholic observances last week were services in church. To their subdued congregations, priests distributed printed copies of utterances by the Holy Father which censorship kept out of the Italian press...
...gentle air of insanity continued last week to pervade reports of the U. S. mayors' junket to France as guests of that country. On a four-day frolic about Normandy they received careful instructions in French manners and etiquette preparatory to their Paris reception. Always in the press spotlight was big, breezy, beetle-browed George Baker, Mayor of Portland, Ore. and chairman of the delegation of 25 executives. At a banquet at Dinard, Mayor Baker grandly announced that he would adopt a five-year-old French orphan who played the bass drum in a church band which entertained...
Mary Hay's father was Brig.-General Frank Merrill Caldwell, U. S. A. He was stationed at Fort Bliss, Tex. when she was bom 29 years ago. She was 17, spry and "cute" when she stepped into the chorus of Florenz Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic. In 1920 she married Cinemactor Richard Barthelmess, and the same year her charm and intelligence got her a part in Mr. Ziegfeld's Sally. The Hayday came in 1923, when she starred in her own show, Mary Jane McKane, and when she and spindleshanked Clifton Webb sang and danced to "Two Little...