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...eagle clutching the Italian flag in its mouth. The plaque had been sent by a girl in Rome to "the pilot who has no sweetheart." The pilots elected Lieut. Cadringheri, and all autographed a picture of one of the squadron's seaplanes to send to the girl. The horseplay was interrupted when Col. Pellegrini mustered the men of the squadron into line on the quay, facing the 25 big seaplanes bobbing at moorings. The stage was set. Upon it stepped the imposing figure of General Italo Balbo, Minister of Aviation, supreme commander of the Atlantic flight. To General Balbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Masses Like Infantry | 6/26/1933 | See Source »

...bedroom, agreeable as Miss Purcell certainly is, or wants to hear her beat her chest and scream "I-hate-you-I-hate-you!" And who is amused by Alexius, the type of the "Miles Gloriosus" who was a theatrical chestnut in Roman times? As for the Bulgarian army, their horseplay suggests the Pirates of Penzance on an off day; they succeed in being about as funny as a squad of filling-station men saying "Check your...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/18/1932 | See Source »

They Don't Mean Any Harm. Of recent years there has developed a school of British dramatists and fictioneers who undertake to demonstrate how spontaneously charming certain of their characters can be by making those characters engage in endless, silly, self-conscious horseplay. Jack plays Jill is Queen Mary, or Jill plays Jack is trying to sell her a set of dirty picture cards outside the Invalides. Simultaneously there has developed a large U. S. audience whose reaction to this sort of thing is angry boredom. If you happen to be a member of this audience, you had better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 7, 1932 | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...make a few bows to Rah but they cease even to be funny when unwilling onlookers or passers by are involved. Even hazing long since has been given a one way ticket to somewhere. And the whole Harvard community seems the better for its absence. Jokes are jokes and horseplay is horseplay as long as the jokers and horses are gentlemen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLLEGIATE | 9/25/1931 | See Source »

...always does the House concluded its session with fulsome speeches, self-congratulations, cheers, horseplay. Speaker Longworth, in a farewell speech-from-the-throne, recognized that it might be his last term as presiding officer. The Marine Band Orchestra was led by Representative La Guardia of New York. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida sang "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag" as she used to sing it in War canteens. The Speaker played on the piano while Virginia's Woodrum sang "Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny." It was all very merry, the most noisy and exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 71st's End | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

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