Word: madcapping
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...Philadelphia Lady." By ordinary publishing rules, the Paris Herald should have perished with its creator, the late James Gordon Bennett Jr., madcap son of the New York Herald's founder. While Bennett lived, the newspaper was never much more than an expensive plaything. Self-exiled to Europe after a series of escapades, Bennett established the Paris Herald in 1887 mostly as a buffer against his own ennui. Save for a glorious hour at the outbreak of the first World War, when Bennett resolutely published under the German guns after even the government had fled, the Herald for three decades...
Suddenly Belle's husband, whom she had divorced for a poor sucker, turned out to be a rich sucker-he died and left her $150,000. Like a shot, Belle was off to Europe, and soon her madcap manners and her saucy wit had won her a place in the social whirl around the Prince of Wales, later Edward...
...Plume de Ma Tante. A crew of madcap Frenchmen have built a better laugh-trap and theatergoers are beating a path to its box-office door...
...Plume de Ma Tante. This madcap French revue is guaranteed to tickle the funnybone of everybody's tante...
...Plume de Ma Tante. The French are too funny for words, and scarcely need or use them in this madcap revue...