Word: gamboling
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...lurcher-revealed by a street light as a big blackamoor in a stiff shirt (badly smutted) and a dented plug-hat-beamed amiably and continued his uncertain gambol up the empty street...
...when all nature contrives to make it hard to study, another condition, natural enough to be sure, but unlike the others, subject to human control, adds to the students' difficulties. The nice green grass in the Yard, and its general park-like appearance attract throngs of happy children to gambol and frolic up and down the steps of Widener and all about the buildings, filling the air with their merry shouts and laughter. Nothing is more truly delightful than the spontaneous merriment of children, but innocent and pleasing as it may be, a library where students are busily preparing...
...proposed Agricultural College might bring a rural touch and a sweet domesticity heretofore lacking in the Yard. Sheep might graze before Holworthy to keep the grass down and gambol with the students between classes. Nanny goats could glean a comfortable existence from the partly used but still wholesome cigarettes in front of Sever. There could be a dairy under University Hall, restoring as best it could the ancient beer garden. And of a spring evening, when the horses had been driven into Fogg Museum, and the geese safely crowded into Appleton, one might hear the lilting songs of plowboys coming...
...just before he explodes exactly like "old Frosty's", so we enjoyed the exhibition superlatively. Whoever conceived the scene where that dignified old sairap toach around on "Dandy Dobbin" was a master of comedy. And for that matter, the scene in which about a dozen of the chorus gambol in the costumes of a generation or so age, (we aren't quite suro how many generations), and some of the "boys" pose in an old-time daguerreotype was second to none we have ever seen. That tune, "The Flannel Petticoat Girl" emphasized the absurdity of the disguises somehow, with...
...offset French prestige by strengthening that of Great Britain. Finally, rumors of British action on the French debt were heard at Paris about the same time that the French began to realize that they were virtually isolated in Europe. Such is the bare outline of a clever diplomatic gambol...