Word: horseplay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkish fandango suggesting fraternal-order shenanigans. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme becomes a varied though lengthy evening. Despite its measure of real low comedy, it retains a kind of ballet air. There is something ceremonious as well as earthy in its laughter, and a pinch of period charm in all its horseplay...
...listen so avidly to his colleagues' scholarship that he has been called a brain-picker, but he trades jokes with no man. Around him, the ceaseless flow of anecdotes is all outward. Buffoonery relaxes his tense spiritual muscles. Buffoonery and work. After the long, argumentative conferences, after the horseplay and the backslapping, when he goes home to his lonely Harlem apartment, he becomes Thurgood Marshall the scholar, reading, noting, thinking, remembering-late into the night almost every night. He walks into a cheap Harlem bar and is greeted by friendly smiles, not because of what he has done...
...fight it out with a couple of courtiers (Robert Douglas and Jay Robinson), who have been intriguing on the Queen's outskirts. He also beds down with a proud beauty named Beth Throgmorton (Joan Collins), and when Elizabeth tries to draw a tight reign on this horseplay, Raleigh boldly kicks up his heels. For this the Queen could hand Sir Walter his head, but by this time she is so encumbered with other worries that she just gives him a ship and his lady and tells them to get the hell out of town. Fadeout: Raleigh, his arm around...
...Best from Gano. The anniversary dinner (sirloin steak, champagne) was no stuffy testimonial, but a newspaperman's blend of horseplay and affection. Toastmaster Dick Thornburg, editor of the Cincinnati Post, struck the keynote by calling Howard "the greatest newspaperman ever to come out of Gano, Ohio, population...
...eighth annual Democrat-Republican baseball game in Washington. New Jersey's rippling (350 Ibs.) Democratic Representative T. (for Thomas) James Tumulty frisked through some horseplay with his teammate and close congressional pal, California's James Roosevelt, leftfielder. Bellowed Tumulty: "When I get up, I'll have to hit a home run because I sure could never run out a hit to first base!" When one-inning Third Baseman Tumulty came to bat, a pinch runner was ready to do his legwork for him, but hurly-burly "T.J." hit only a short dribbler, was thrown out at first...