Word: horseplaying
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...publication of this gasconade was said to constitute an insult to France, but was not likely intended as such. No doubt Foreign Minister Eduard Benes, "apostle of peace," had his own reasons for sanctioning, if he did, this verbose horseplay...
Verbose CzechoSlovakian horseplay...
...arched eyebrow over the askance eye of the intellectual has been lifted in deprecation ever since the high name of comedy has been debased by its application to "comic strips." Comic strips, the horseplay of journalism, the daily joy of my honest burghers, have suffered long the stings of contempt. Seldom have they been excoriated so devastatingly or on such grounds as by Alejandro Hoch, an editor from the Argentine, who is visiting these parts. These are his winged words describing this danger to civilization...
...Patricola has one of the funniest acts seen in vaudeville for years, his method of telling jokes making any imitation of him almost a sacrilege. He falls down and knocks himself about with such subtlety that any suspicion of slapstick or horseplay is done away with...
...play is full of amusing situations, in one of which a foppish French tailor, in search of the latest fashions, falls in with a company of courtiers who owe him money. There follows some very amusing horseplay, characteristic of the time in which the comedy is written. Another series of amusing incidents is afforded by numerous mistakes occuring during the progress of an elopement. The King finally settles all the disputes, and the play ends with the marriage of Ismenia and Don Julio together with the reconciliation of the hostile families...