Word: funning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American. He is apt to receive reporters in his underwear, reading a mystery novel. At various times he has played a ukulele, guitar, saxophone. The golf-bug has bitten him. Nothing is more fun for him than to roar out a lusty song (favorite: My Name Is Jon Jonson, I Come From Wisconsin), especially at formal dinners. At parties he sits on the floor if he can. When he drinks, it is not much; when he smokes, it is a Hatamen cigaret-cheap brand the coolies...
...want to teach the boys to box and have fun. There will be no real contact work for beginners until they have had about a month of instruction," Lamar said. After that, the boys will be eased into the real work gradually...
...Less fun and more studies" has been the trend among students during the last ten years, according to both Archibald C. McConnell and Joseph Brady, Janitors of Adams and Lowell Houses...
...studies, is to get enough football players for a team. Reed has a normal annual football budget of about $100, charges nothing for admission to games. This fall, having decided that Reed football was becoming too dangerous, Mr. Keezer blew in $300 for shoulder pads, pants, etc. For the fun of it, two young facultymen-Biology Teacher William ("Bill") McElroy, lately a varsity end at Stanford, and Alfred ("Fritz") Hubbard, onetime Carnegie Fellow at Princeton-offered to coach. Result was an unusually big turnout for the team: 30 (including two Japanese) of Reed's 546 students. Except on rainy...
...fun is complicated by Groucho's efforts to extract $10,000 from Mrs. Dukesbury (Margaret Dumont, stately stooge of the Marxes), a Newport dowager. Groucho, who has never seen Mrs. Dukes-bury before, barges into her boudoir, woos her with this Marxian dialectric: "Those June nights on the Riviera . . . and that night I drank champagne from your slipper -two quarts." The big scene is the party for the 400. "Judge Chanock," says Mrs. Dukesbury graciously, "will sit on my left hand, you (to Groucho) will sit on my right hand." "How will you eat," cracks Groucho, "through a tube...