Word: horseplaying
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Crosby was in the process of discovering that what he called his "gravel throat" was one of the most sentimentally appealing voices in history. It was all but lost in the horseplay vocalism. But once he knew it was around, Crosby took good care to find it. In 1929 the trio broke...
...through three conflagrations, too many minstrel shows leading to fame & fortune in New Orleans. When Crosby sings, fans will not be critical. But much of the time he is engaged in crude, unconvincing romances with Marjorie Reynolds and Dorothy Lamour. And most of the time the minstrelsy is just horseplay...
...Watchful Days. During the days, when raids are likely, or on moonlight nights when the Japs make a sortie, there is very little horseplay. Everybody is listening, receiving, decoding. Sometimes you hear one of the service planes making "the milk run" to one section of the network line...
...prim officers never discuss anything not already in print. The company's practical downtown Manhattan offices are pervaded by a churchlike decorum-everyone looks solemn, all men politely remove their hats when a girl gets into an elevator. Even at the annual Christmas parties no wine, liquor or horseplay is tolerated...
...anything but resigned and sullen prisoners. Once over his astonishment that he is being treated like a human being and given more food than he has probably had for some time, the Jap undergoes a rapid readjustment. Often he becomes a happy-go-lucky prisoner with a passion for horseplay, cigarets, American slang and swing tunes. . . . Each prisoner is allotted five native cigarets daily, but they would gladly trade them all for an American cigaret. Their favorite expression...