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Word: romp (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italy on Thanksgiving Day, a group of U.S. soldiers prepared to romp into a turkey dinner. Suddenly one of them stood up. He was a 22-year-old veteran pilot. He said: "Gentlemen, since this is Thanksgiving I would like to say grace." Everybody looked sheepish. Said a chaplain: "Lieutenant, I think that's a fine idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Soldier's Grace | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...late the Waller hands have not been idle. In the motion picture Stormy Weather (TIME, July 12), they caused a battered piano to romp in rare fashion. For the Broadway musical Early to Bed (TIME, June 28), the Waller right hand packed out the tunes. This week, back in Manhattan after a trip to Canada, Fats Waller was cooking up some new numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How Tom Is Doin' | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

Hard College Years. The boys will find college no romp. They will be uniformed, on active duty (as apprentice seamen, buck privates), carry heavy class schedules. But military activities will be subordinated to academic training. Some opportunity will be given for athletics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Mass Test | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...unit, but had to build the missing pieces before the unit could be used at all. If OPA should stick to its ruling, Union's mill would have to close down one month this quarter, might not reopen for the duration because hard-to-hire mill hands would romp off to other jobs. Probable outcome: Kraft paper is so essential for shipping war materials that oil may be provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Trouble in 40% | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

Bouguereau's plump-bottomed girls, vainly trying to get their shaggy, Pan-piping friend to romp with them, are depicted in academic, sugary fashion. But the draftsmanship is strong, the painted human flesh masterly. In its time the picture has traveled widely on boxes of Hoffman House perfectos, in a comic lithograph showing a bum leaning on the Hoffman bar, staring at the nymphs by their woodsy creek. The caption: "I've been looking all over the world for that creek, but darned if I can find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tales of the Hoffman House | 1/25/1943 | See Source »

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