Word: horseplay
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...totally undomesticated horse still left on earth. The stocky beasts have big heads, thick, short manes, chocolate-brown legs and a fondness for friendly nipping, neighing and other forms of socializing. But unless there are more exchanges to prevent inbreeding, they won't have much company for such horseplay. Only 420 Przewalskis survive worldwide, all of them in captivity...
...first interviewed by the state police and the time he actually testified. At the trial. Dr. Michael Shesky denied having told the police that he saw two of the doctors drag DiPietro from the apartment, adding that he only heard scuffing in the hall which he presumed to be horseplay...
Then again, these are stereotypical Catholic lives. They are lives filled with loneliness, exhaustion, and fear; fear of God, fear of loss, fear of sin. There is no horseplay in a Gordon novel, no exorbitant fantasy. There is no security for her characters, they do not enjoy life, all stability outside the Church is illusory. The Catholic formula prevails: passion brings scandal, scandal brings dishonor, dishonor brings withdrawal and isolated solace. Gordon's characters are unhappy, but never trapped, they simply have nowhere else to go. Isabel Moore nurses her father for eleven years and is never self-pitying. That...
...very low key, all very businesslike. But the man whose passion is organization relishes horseplay in his private moments. For example, he does a first-rate imitation of George Washington trying to talk and straighten his wooden dentures at the same time. It is an act that will play well on tense White House evenings...
...Amour heroes like Tell don't chew, swear, swill redeye or hang around dance halls, and they don't go with girls who do. Horseplay and gunplay are surprisingly infrequent. The Sacketts are courtly coffee drinkers who never draw first and fight only when their bedrock belief in the perfectability of mankind has been violated. They hardly rate...