Word: horseplaying
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...election of a lord rector by the students is quite another thing. The qualifications of the candidates are too well known to necessitate campaign oratory and tubthumping. Solemnity is banished and the vote is one of hearty sentiment, not unmixed with good British horseplay and ribaldry...
...ravishing daughter and died a noble death just in time to avert a happy ending. Chuckle production, still profuse, rests chiefly on: 1) The incongruous appearance of old family bywords ; 2) cretinous actions by the characters; 3) obtuse conversations as between one amiable dunderhead and another ; 4) childish horseplay with modern solemnities; 5) feints at coy indelicacy. If the reader at times identifies the author with his hero, that is because, in the funny business, the last, not the first, 100 years are the hardest. It is impossible to be a success at anything, even clowning, and not take...
...become history without some company somewhere painting its title on its varying shingle. The play is farce, dealing with the impersonation by an undergraduate of an elderly lady to act in the capacity of chaperon at a college party. The current company is by no means distinguished. The horseplay seems singularly oldfashioned. It is still funny. Lucky Sambo. Negro musical comedies tipped Manhattan off its tolerant balance some seasons back with Shuffle Along. Ever since then, there have been imitations. Of Lucky Sambo it is not necessary to beware. The music is fair, the humor humorously to type...
...Willianstown. A friendly slapping on the back is ground for an action of battery, and to walk arm in arm is almost immoral. The playful spirit in which you live on your Rousseauistic stage is here relegated to children below the age of 14 years, and any signs of horseplay are taken as evidence of a breach of the Volstead...
...Tories will, of course, try to reduce taxes, without restricting the beneficent activities of the government among the needy electorate. Altogether, the next months, perhaps years, will see the unrolling of a moderate plan of internal relief and development with a rather dignified and touchy mingling in the horseplay of European politics: bread at home and game abroad will once again quiet the restless mob of voters...