Word: horseplay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Confederate-held coasts during the second half of the Civil War were the despair of Rebel defenders. Cushing was young and handsome, a braggart as well as an incredibly brave man. His superiors feared his escapades nearly as much as did the enemy (on the eve of war his horseplay got him expelled from Annapolis; later, at sea, his irresponsibility in humiliating a British ship's captain became an international incident). His most spectacular adventure was the destruction of the Confederate ironclad, Albemarle, at its anchorage in Plymouth, N.C. Several Union attempts to destroy the ironclad had already failed...
Strange Race. Gauvreau also hit on a way to invent pictures that he called "composographs." He boosted circulation by 100,000 with a composograph showing Rudolph Valentino's arrival in heaven. The faked picture came most sensationally into its own when it illustrated the bedroom horseplay of eccentric Millionaire Edward ("Daddy") Browning and his young bride "Peaches," whose litigious romance was a Graphic bonanza. The couple was shown in composographs that sometimes contained balloon dialogue even for Daddy's pet goose...
Trigger-quick on wisecracks, some of them corny even for a simple-minded oater, this horseplay opera is a Technicolored remake of the 1936 Bing Crosby musical, Rhythm on the Range. Its chief assets: four new songs by Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen, two leading ladies (Lori Nelson and Jackie Loughery), and a personable prize bull named Cuddles, who provides a beefy relief from the Martin and Lewis brand...
...showed an early talent for painting and horseplay, but her voice took over, and she landed a regular singing job at CBS when she was 21. One day at her dressmaker's, she met an Irish cop from Staten Island. His name was Robert Vincent Reagan, and he was investigating a threatening letter received by the dressmaker. Reagan and Farrell were married in 1945, settled down in Staten Island, just a ferry ride from Manhattan. Then and there, Eileen Farrell found that she was a homebody with a true devotion to cooking and children (the Reagans have two). Nevertheless...
...Horseplay with the corpse, and similar macabracadabra, has been a viable variety of humor in the human village since at least the Middle Ages, and few will seriously bother to accuse Hitchcock of bad taste. What he does sometimes invite in this picture is the charge of slack method. The comic pace often gets so slow that the moviegoer realizes he is, after all, at a funeral. The actors, too, sometimes behave pretty much like pallbearers, but the central idea is of such wormy charm that it takes more than an hour and a half to spoil...