Word: romp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bates came to Soldiers Field the following week, and the Lamarmen enjoyed a 43 to 6 romp over the ineffective Bobcats. Schultz, Jenkins and Chapple each contributed two touchdowns in the awesome display of power...
...stripe suit were sharp. So were his departments: practical and applied psychology, chemical psychotherapy, hypnotic childbirth, advanced esoterics and metaphysics, and reflex therapy (dandy for baldness). Students of "prenatal suggestion" were advised: "When a couple decides to have children, they should go to a mountain resort where they can romp in the grass and eat green vegetables." The college claimed 4,000 alumni...
...rosy complexions of our sun-worshipping fourth company brethren are attributable to their romp with nature in the form of a skiing excursion to the North Conway trails last Saturday. If you're of like mind, there's a suggestion for the weekend. If not, here's another. A special leaves at 1225 tomorrow for Providence, R. I., where "they're off" at Narragansett at 1430. Naturally officers don't gamble, but servicemen are admitted free, and watching others get rich on Reyes in the fourth race will be a pleasant pastime...
Antiques. Best-liked British plays are both revivals: Congreve's Restoration romp, Love for Love, starring John Gielgud; and a superbly costumed An Ideal Husband by the epigrampa of them all, Oscar Wilde. Of An Ideal Husband (produced by Cinemactor Robert Donat), Critic Charles Edward Montague once said: "It proves how indolently a man of comic genius may write a comedy and yet not fail. . . . The tangle of the plot is not really disentangled at all; it is merely exorcised; miracles happen whenever Wilde cannot undo one of his knots." London also has a good Peter...
...investigation" was California's fourth recent legislative romp into U.S.-Jap baiting. It was headed by a ruddy-faced Sacramento attorney, Chester F. Gannon, Legionnaire and key Republican member of the State Assembly. Although Marine Borchers' letter had started the fury, Gannon did not summon him as a witness. Gannon had his own views: "We have been told it would be unhealthy for Japanese-even American-born-to be seen on California streets, and that returning Marines and soldiers would slit their throats...