Word: madcapping
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...Ringwood, County Hampshire, England, a blear-eyed Friesian cow named Bridge Birch yielded 41,952 pounds of milk in 329 days to displace (unofficially) an American Holstein, Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, as world champion. Bridge Birch's owner admitted that his cow got a daily diet-booster of half a gallon of stout...
...line fillers masquerading as limericks. Take "Speak For St. Joan," for instance. This is a good-natured burlesque of what might happen if two local histrionic organizations were to whip up a joint production. The points of the satire are consistently clear and the lyrics consistently funny, while the madcap climax combines a Cole Porter motif and a Charles Addams taste for the hideously ridiculous into some-thing of a tour de force...
...girlish sighs accompany the first appearance of Van Johnson and reoccur at unpredictable moments throughout. The big surprise is that the story itself, far from being a B plot dressed up in technicolor, abounds in first-rate humour and develops with steady interest to the madcap climax...
Unwlling to concede that the CRIMSON a undoubtedly the best baseball team Dick Harlow ever coached, the 'Cliffe dwellers, still smarting from their recent defeat in a race along the Charles, will attempt to prove the superiority of the weaker sex in a madcap jamboree, now scheduled for next Wednesday...
...Merry ("Madcap") Fahrney, red-haired cough-syrup heiress (TIME, April 19, 1943), who romped off to Buenos Aires two years ago after divorcing husband No. 5 and denouncing the U.S., declared herself finished with Nazi Baron Herbert von Strempel (up-to-the-last-minute favorite for No. 6) and ready to marry again. Her new intended was 20-year-old Carlos Ojeda, son of Mexico's Ambassador to Argentina. A short-time Columbia student, Carlos spoke enough English to reveal that she was "the most perfect cook I ever saw; she captured me by the tummy." Cried the thirtyish...