Word: romped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victor Moore, who recently tried to give his dog a romp and got fined for unleashing it in Manhattan's Central Park (TIME, May 27), tried to go fishing and walked into an explosion. At Greenport, L.I., the portly comedian and Son Robert were tuning up the engines of their cabin cruiser when something exploded. Results: Son Robert, arm and leg burns; Victor, a scratched thumb and little finger, singed hair and eyebrows...
...Prosecution. Once again Farrell's satire is "like elephants out for a good romp" (as the late New Republic critic Otis Ferguson aptly described it). The dialogue, as usual, is tone-deaf, and the adverbial crunches devastating (Bernard "winced inwardly"; "'Blah!' the drunk angrily ejaculated...
Similes and metaphors romp hither & yon ("Here I am like a crow, circling, circling around and around, circling and cawing, cawing as I swoop in a downward arc to sink my teeth into the same old dilemma"). And, as ever, at the dip of a rambling pen, the characteristic Farrell brashness melts into oleomargarine
Agents or middlemen . . . romp in circles, like porpoises on the high seas, around the big sharks. . . . They are, in a sense, the most honest of the lot, for they frankly admit that they would just as soon sell cars or pyramids...
...Fours Romp. The high points in the Memoirs are Mr. Wilson's soon-to-be-notorious love story, The Princess with the Golden Hair, and The Milhollands and Their Damned Soul. The Milhollands is an uproarious allfours romp through the whole world of U.S. writing, publishing and book-promotion. There is the eager young Yaleman who, after feeling that his "generation" has been "betrayed," first by T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, then by the Marxists, winds up ballyhooing bellywash on national hookups. There is the Purity League's investigation of the Booklover when its personal columns sprout...