Word: horseplaying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most of their time in Widener a dashing visit to the Metropolitan this week is suggested as one way of forgetting the approaching midyears and throwing off the weariness of the fiesh resulting from much reading. In "Wife Savers" Raymond Hatton and Wallace Beery display every brand of slapstick, horseplay, and clownishness capable of being photographed. With a French postwar background, a matrimonial motif and the assistance of Zazu Pitts, Ford Sterling, and Tom Kennedy they reach new heights of hilarity which are diverting, if not side-splitting. In the war scenes we have a burlesque of "What Price Glory...
Optimist International is a glad-hand organization of "big brothers" (grown men) devoted informally to grinning horseplay, formally to welfare work among boys. It is called "International" because some members live in Canada...
Political atmosphere in Washington can often be gauged, inversely, by the success of Gridiron skits. At last week's horseplay, the least laughter resulted when the scribes tried to joke about Secretary Kellogg's application of the Monroe Doctrine to oil wells...
...partly understood from the fact that it quickly sold into 58 editions last summer abroad. Only one side of a tremendous issue is represented, and that in light journalistic burlesque. As literature the book is only the skeleton for a monster social satire with a few lines of horseplay, suggestions for ironic masterstrokes, sketched in. As the Finance Minister is explaining his aspect of the law, his tongue gets caught in his false teeth. When the law is passed, Christian deputies rush, to make market speculations through their brokers, named Cohn, Kuhn, Kohen, Rosenstrauch, Butterfrass. A high dignitary's wife...
...like of which may be expected yet again. The subtitle of Galahad is a very fair sample of Erskine wit: "Enough of his life to explain his reputation." The strength of the irony is as the strength of ten because Author Erskine exercises restraint, discretion, grace instead of horseplay. Member of the English faculty at Columbia University, facile, dignified, popular, 47, married (1910), Author Erskine's most recent public act of moment was reading a memorial poem at the Phi Beta Kappa sesquicentennial last month (TIME...