Word: gambolers
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...student with a twisted sense of humor (and a bulging purse, as Harvard is rather fond of administering fines) could gambol through years of unrestrained practical and emerge without a scratch. the line between the petty prank and the felony that causes the axe to thin indeed. The Dean's Office will only smile sadly at the student who took a month's vacation to in the middle of the term, for attendance as a rule is strictly voluntary. But should a student be at his desk intently studying of Joyce he has taken from the library without signing...
...familiar with it. Those with any knowledge of the plot have usually acquired it through one of the dozen or so operatic versions, chiefly Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor, Verdi's Falstaff, or Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love. But the directors were willing to gamble (or gambol); and their slot (or slut) machine has come up with three cherries--a winning combination that ought to keep the box office coffers filled and the audience coughers silent...
...came on a wall of stone blocks apparently taken from a monument built in the 1st or 2nd century A.D. and made into a fortification. Many of them are carved, showing scenes of ancient provincial life. On one of them are a man and woman holding hands. Nude dancers gambol across another...
After watching Britain's Prince Philip and his team of Welsh Guards gambol through a polo match, U.S. Embassy Secretary Elizabeth Davis (granddaughter of the late Norman H. Davis, an F.D.R. ambassador at large) approached the titled gamesman with pen and paper in hand, asked for an autograph. While aghast flunkies scurried to his rescue, the Prince obliquely hinted that the royal scrawl is not available to souvenir hunters, cracked: "Well, I know it's an old custom-but you see I don't know how to write," sped off in his Lagonda as Secretary Davis...
...show, the undisputed dean of summer replacements, which early this month, as dependable as lightning bugs, made its annual return to network TV. As in last summer, Pantomime Quiz is replacing Ed Murrow's Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS), and its frenetic actors will gambol and gyrate through the dog days until Murrow's return on Sept. 13. "In the winter," says Mike Stokey, "I hibernate...