Word: horseplaying
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...summer cruises in the Baltic on Finnish windjammers. He reads few books, would "rather open a vein than write," though T. E. Lawrence frequently made corrections in the Odyssey at his suggestion. (Rogers suggested the Odyssey translation to Lawrence.) Fond of bright clothing, Italian cooking, puns and typographical horseplay, Bruce Rogers particularly likes lying abed mornings. On his tombstone, chuckles "B. R.," he would like to have chiseled these instructions for the Angel Gabriel: "Call me last...
...mild crisis has colored the D'Oyly Carters' present visit. Several Broadway critics accused Martyn Green, the company's chief comic, of prancing, capering, grimacing too much as Ko-Ko in The Mikado-"putting the horseplay before the D'Oyly Carte," as Critic John Anderson referred to it. To this the Olympian D'Oyly Carters made no answer, merely continued to play, night after night, to standees...
...Gaité Parisienne, most ingratiating of the new ballets, the tinseled, Second-Empire melodies of Jacques Offenbach set off a riot of color and horseplay, in which the ubiquitous Massine danced the part of a visiting Peruvian roustabout...
...this, Sculptor Bufano's artistic friends were not slow to remark that a "drool cloth" was something Mr. Pegler needed himself. Sculptor Bufano promptly challenged Pegler to make good on his offer to sculp something better. The horseplay stage of the controversy then began. Old Newshawk Pegler played ball with the boys by posing for photographs in an artist's smock and beret. Sculptor Bufano made a scornful sketch of Sculptor Pegler's statue. Finally completed last week and cast in plaster, Pegler's model was shipped to San Francisco. It was called "Mrs. George Spelvin...
Meanwhile, Franklin I continued aboard the Houston down the west coast of Mexico, battling yellow-tails, striped pargo, bluejacks, broomtailed groupers, losing a big shark. At the Equator, the usual elaborate horseplay for "pollywogs" who had never crossed it before was conducted by the "shellbacks." Chief pollywog was Secretary Stephen Early, the Press's sole contact with the President. Chief shellback: Franklin Roosevelt...