Word: horseplay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High, Low, Jack. Nobody on the Fox lot in those days cared much whether strapping young Duke Morrison was proud of his trade or not, but they found him a likable, good-natured companion in horseplay. A favorite sport was to get the big ex-tackle down on all fours in signals position and try to push him over. One day the great director, John Ford, joined the game. Duke took his stance. With a deft kick Ford knocked his hands from under him, and the property man's face hit the floor with a smack. It was very...
...Josephine and Duke were divorced. Busy with his commitments at one studio after another, and conscientiously conferring over every step of every production, he found less & less time for the hearty outdoor pastimes-hunting, fishing, deep-water sailing-he likes best, and the long evenings of poker, bridge and horseplay he shared with his strapping friends Bond, Withers and John Ford...
...most flamboyant bit of horseplay since the first Harvardman swallowed a live goldfish in the thirties, two Harvard sophomores sat themselves down tête-à-tête one morning last week and begin slapping each other in the face. Their purpose: to collect $128 in bets by emulating the 150-year-old example of two Russian yogis who had slapped away for 72 hours straight. Harvard's record, established last week: one slap every ten seconds for 48 hours, or 17,280 slaps...
...Telling the story in sprightly native idiom, Selina succumbs to digressions almost as often as to Boss Paul. Periodically, the novel stops to paint a tapestry of South African customs and manners, e.g., the rousing celebration of Dingaan's Day, a Boer national holiday, a bit of rural horseplay in which a gullible farmer eats lizard's eggs thinking they are stomach pills. Selina's voice bobs through the story, alternately playful and plaintive, but finally conveying the pain and humiliation for which she can never find a real remedy...
...Horseplay. After Warren's report, Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan piously cried "politics." The uproar was as noisy and as flimsy, he said, as "crackers thrown into...