Word: madcapping
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...ever, finishing second in the Ivy League. He's pretty confident about the upcoming season, too Edo expects this squad to be one of his best. He's recruited some experienced fencers to go with last year's young team, and , if he can harness the antics of his madcap fencers, there should be a lot of victories coming his way There are times, though, when you have to wonder what Vince Lombardi would have to say about the good-time philosophy that pervails among Edo's fencers. But I guess even Lombardi wouldn't knock success...
...play itself approaches the naivete within us all and the oftentimes too narrow confines of our existence with the madcap and improbable style that good farce demands. All the elements of farce are present and accounted for--mistaken identities, chance meetings, characters hiding beneath tables and inside closets, young innocents seeking thrills and happiness, a pig-headed miser trying to foil them, and minor characters of vast experience and questionable virtue. What the play point-blank suggests to the audience, in the moral pronounced before the final curtain, is that we should all free ourselves for some adventure in life...
Fairchild arrived in New York with an audacious plan: to attempt a madcap, Tom Jones-style conquest of the fashion industry by wrapping Seventh Avenue, high fashion and the Beautiful People into one publication. Run-of-the-mill reporters for WWD continued to trudge up and down Seventh Avenue, feeding needle-and-thread stories to rewrite men and women back on Twelfth Street. But, with his pack in full cry, Fairchild rode off in hot pursuit of scoops, gossip and scandal...
...leading lady, leading lady, I've always wanted to be a Broadway leading lady: The rootin' tootin'est Annie or a madcap Mame or Dolly, That sad and funny girl Fanny, Nelly Forbush or unsinkable Molly...
...pricking pretense in manners, morals and mercenary matters. She has been in the U.S. since 1939 and now lives in Oakland, Calif., with her second husband, Lawyer Robert Treuhaft. But she remains a quintessential Mitford, the offspring of an eccentric English baron whose six daughters were celebrated for their madcap escapades in a quarter-century of headlines...