Word: horseplaying
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When an enlisted man drops in at the P-X he can hang around the place, chew the fat of the post, get a copy of True Romances, watch officer's and noncoms' wives come in for meat and groceries, make restrained horseplay with other fellows. There he can buy cigarets, souvenir ash trays, candy, razor blades, gasoline, Sunday uniforms-more than 6,000 items...
...years later the Sixth Symphony brought him further official plaudits. Outside Russia, music lovers were more critical. Shostakovich's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies combined spontaneous gusto, originality and nobility, with a curious taste for trite themes and musical horseplay, as if the composer were constantly fighting down an impulse to throw musical custard pies...
...rear-as it might be a farmer slapping an old horse. They knew that a chapter in their lives was over. Some current of emotion-half-abashed, selfconscious, a sentiment that seemed a little ridiculous when dedicated to inanimate machinery-moved through the crowd, finding its outlet in the horseplay, the offhand talk, the what-the-hells with which American workmen cover up what they feel...
...walrus' son (Robert Cummings), who has mislaid his new fiancée. Of course the old man recovers, and the substitute fiancee has to continue her role until the young man falls in love with her and makes it permanent. The picture is a blend of amusing horseplay, bright dialogue and tears, with a noticeable...
...came to the Dillon Field House he found that the training room was more of a recreation center than a medical station and that his charges, led by Kevorkian, much preferred a water-fight to a massage. After a struggle, order and a workman-like atmosphere were restored and horseplay put in its place, to break forth only occasionally, as when Torby MacDonald put a missile through one of the windows during a recent tape-ball fight...