Word: horseplaying
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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...
...crowd of some 3,000 persons that milled around at Highland and Dayton Avenues on the following afternoon paid very little attention to the 35 patrolmen who were watching from the sidewalk. There was snow in the gutters. Small boys had a fine time pelting motorcycle policeman. Much merry horseplay, too, of holding back light cars that were trying to get up the grade to the Botany plant. Officers tried to clear the traffic. They drove their sputtering motorcycles round and round. Women jeered, dingy men guffawed. ... It was a signal the patrolmen had been waiting for. They charged...
...Andrews University, oldest in Scotland (1411), conducted its annual election of a Lord Rector with the usual horseplay. As at Glasgow the week before (TIME, Nov. 2), eggs flew and smelled, herrings smelled and flew, tomatoes smelled and smelled and smashed, and cold water cascaded from the galleries of the Student Union. Arctic Explorer Dr. Fridtiof Nansen of Norway was elected with 216 votes against 160 for Novelist John Galsworthy...