Word: horseplay
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...good measure the directors have tossed in a couple of vigorous dances, and plenty of silly horseplay--such as the cigar-lighting routine, the fall from a chair to the floor, the pushing of a soap-filled shaving brush in someone's face, the pinching of female buttocks, and the person hidden under a table who moves it all over the stage in order to overhear a conversation better. And they have invented some new laughs. For example, when Benedick says of Beatrice, "I do spy some marks of love in her," the remark takes on a fresh significance through...
...steeliest of the girls stood beside the cans as markers. An Angels Camp policeman darted into the street to pick up the beer cans, retreated amid hoots and catcalls when a cyclist buzzed him. Other gangs organized drag races, reached 50 m.p.h. from standing starts. Some settled for simple horseplay. One doughty fellow teased his friends with a mop until they charged him with chains, beat his face bloody and banged his head against the pavement. "Get up and you're dead," said a buddy, who kicked him in the groin and slouched...
...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...