Word: knockabouts
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Queen Wilhelmina was tired. For 49 years, ever since she was a girl of 18 (whom Playwright Edmond Rostand once described as "the little lily queen who rules over the kingdom of tulips"), she had worn the crown-or the somewhat knockabout hats which she preferred...
...knockabout days of previous conferences, when Laborites could take carefree pokes at the Tories and each other, were past. The rank & file of British Labor now heard their party leaders, doubling as British Cabinet ministers, report on ten months in office. Though the delegates sometimes cheered at embarrassing moments, though they sometimes rumbled disapproval, though they censured their leaders on minor points, in general they fell in line with the Executive Committee's policy and gave a whopping vote of confidence. The old Labor leaders were firmly in the saddle...
Troops at camps around Manhattan will shortly have a taste of the ballet. They may very likely enjoy it, for they will see nothing dainty or esthetical in Fancy Free, the surprise hit of Manhattan's booming ballet season. It is as lusty a piece of knockabout vaudeville as could be found in the hey-heyday of B. F. Keith...
...Howard, who reached this profound conclusion last week, should know. For 40 years he has been offering the very same brand of knockabout comedy that is now devoted to the flow of Piel's beer on Manhattan's station WOR. As ignoramus-in-chief of radio's least erudite quiz show, It Pays To Be Ignorant (Mon., 7:30-8 p.m., E.W.T.), he is one of the most faithful toilers in the old vaudeville garden...
...solve this stuttering maintenance the Army needed an Army man with industry know-how. Glancy's knockabout experience had included engineering in Cuba, managing an iron foundry, a tractor and auto company, and generally trouble shooting for General Motors...