Word: horseplayer
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...people paid $15 a night to sleep on floors, when hackies made $300 a week. $30-a-day hotel rooms were going for $8. Merchants were marking down such items as $300 watches to $165, and case lots of Old Crow from $83.88 to $75.49. In eleven days of horseplay at Hialeah, only $9,500,000 was bet, a $2,600,000 drop compared with the same period last year. Receipts were off, too, at the dog tracks...
Occasionally, drink got the best of the funmakers, and a posada ended in a free-for-all with the palo. A few practical jokers filled their piñatas with charcoal dust which exploded in the guests' faces. The usual sequel to such unseemly horseplay was a Mexican Donnybrook or "Rosario de Amozoc...
...Horseplay. With the same sure breeding hand, Bob went to work on the ranch's cow ponies. There were both thoroughbreds and mustangs with-legend has it-a strain of blood from one of Jesse James's fastest horses. The story goes that James stopped at the ranch one day and found his horse so much admired that he gave it to the ranch...
...picture week at the White House. Harry Truman saw and heard himself in newsreels taken during his trip to Rio, re-enjoyed the horseplay of his Equator crossing. After lunch each day, the President watched a few innings of the World Series games on a White House television set, but never sat through to the last innings. Cinemactor Edward Arnold dropped in and gave him a fat set of pictures of U.S. Presidents, including...
Pritchett says, is the granddaddy of them all: in his work the reader can not only "pick out the perennial characters of the main part of English fiction, but . . . many of its idiosyncrasies and limits. Sociable man, social problems, middle-class humor, the didactic habit, the club culture, the horseplay, the gregarious rather than the single...