Word: romped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bowdoin gunners in one week, the Crimson rifle team moves into fourth position in the loop of 16 New England teams. The match at Norwich was close enough to call for a Crimson rally in the closing minutes to provide the winning margin. The Bowdoin contest was a Harvard romp, the margin of victory rising over 100 points...
Bluebeard was a jolly, pacing romp in which the hats were especially nifty, the sly 'plot especially profuse. In the world of ballet (where troupes change the way French Cabinets used to), the new Ballet Theatre now had the edge on the Massine ballet (Monte Carlo) and Colonel Wassily de Basil's ballet (Original), which have contrived no new hits this year...
...Author Saroyan, for once, is unfair to himself. His latest theatrical what-is-it, which he has literally given to the world,* is like watching the romp of a terrible child who knows when he is being cute. At times the show-off gets tiresome, but there are moments when the beholder is genuinely amused, others when he is moved and impressed...
...need to consider the advisability of sending an expedition to keep the Germans out of key points in West Africa facing South America, or the Japanese out of the Indies. For Anglo-American control of the seas cannot be a matter of complacency so long as the Germans can romp unchecked over the land...
With its 39 points, the Crimson team, trailed by 19 points a powerful Penn aggregation which won six firsts and came through with the additional tallies to romp to its first Ivy League classic win. The Tigers swept into second place with 42 1/2 points, and the Elis trailed the Crimson by half a dozen...