Word: madcapping
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Grappling for the role of challenger for the world's heavyweight championship were two washed-up fighters: Barkeep Tony Galento, a beer-bibbing ham-&-egger who had never heard of the Marquess of Queensberry, and Madcap Maxie Baer, who had been floundering around in the second division since losing his world's title to Jim Braddock in 1935. Both were over 30, had already been knocked out by Champion Joe Louis...
...Netherlands' fast-driving Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, madcap son-in-law of Queen Wilhelmina, went a-racing across a lake in his speedboat, crashed smack into a small motorboat, sank it. Into the water jumped Prince Bernhard, pulled out a wet father, three wet little children. When Netherlands newspapers got wind of the episode they promptly printed nothing about it, instead plastered their front pages with the first pictures of Papa Bernhard's two-weeks-old second daughter, Irene...
Died. Potter D'Orsay Palmer, 34, madcap, four-times-married grandson of Chicago's late rich hotelkeeper and merchant; of a cerebral hemorrhage; four days after a brawl he had started at a barbecue; in Sarasota, Fla. Last year his brother Honore, 29, died while doing setting up exercises in Manhattan (TIME...
...from bright topical lyrics sung by the Foursome, and from such staged and unstaged effects as: 1) Colman ending a discussion of injustice by reading Socrates' speech to his judges; 2) Gary Grant explaining interruptions for station identification by chanting the Federal radio law with Gregorian solemnity; 3) Madcap Carole warmly arguing that women, by simply being practical, could easily run the world without...
...smash hit overnight. Leave It to Me! is a good show, but far from a knockout. Dripping with fat moments, it too often relaxes that festive, madcap spirit, that no-slowing-down-for-curves tempo, that kettle-boiling-over excitement that mark the top-notch farce musical. But it has fast dancing and pretty girls. It has some beguiling, insouciant Cole Porter tunes, some pert cafe society Cole Porter lyrics. It has Sophie Tucker, who can make ambassadorial high-life so low-life that even her pearls seem to leer...