Word: romp
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...Nowadays his friends have persuaded him to substitute Scotch highballs as easier on the stomach. The liquor serves no purpose except to relax him. Usually he then has a dinner engagement, maybe several more engagements during the evening, but he likes to get home as early as possible to romp with his two adopted children, to see his wife who used to be his secretary when he was in Congress and who seldom appears publicly...
...tightly knit plot and a due sense of seriousness in your drama "The Dog" is not for you. If, on the other hand, you are attracted by a madcap romp around contemporary Europe, including Austrian (?) revolutions ("We have them every fortnight now"), a German lunatic asylum ("Everything for the leader"), and a London cabaret ("British love is the best"), by all means go to the Copley. Don't lot the fact that "The Dog" is supposed to be propaganda for rugged communism frighten you away either. The propaganda is there all right, if you want to look...
...fluids whenever possible. The week-long experiment over, she then goes to her boarding house, a block away from her laboratory, to recover from starvation with a three-day diet of fruit juices, cereals ("except rice"), eggs. On the fourth day she has "a big juicy steak" and a romp with her only Philadelphia companion, a wire-haired terrier named Whiskers, from whose loin Miss Medes six years ago removed a kidney. Last week Miss Medes was vacationing from a November spree, will go on another after New Year...
...other picture tries hard to romp, but it's almost too feeble to hobble. All in abidance with the rules of the movie game, a giddy heiress (Anne Southern) with remarkably sensible parents (Henry Stephenson and Jessie Ralph) gets ahold of a very worthy, manly, audacious young man (Gene Raymond) in order to win the man of her heart, who is really something of a cad. Then the rest of the movie is naturally enough used to indicate that heroines do not marry cads, no matter how close they may come to it. There is one departure from the normal...
Forty-two games have been played in the Harvard-Dartmouth series, in which only 10 Crimson scalps have been lost. There were three ties. The first clash was in 1882, a 53-0 romp for the sons of Cambridge, and it wasn't until 1903 that the Hanoverians chalked up their first win--a 11-0 battle framous as the first ever staged in the Stadium...