Word: romping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Samuel Gompers,President of the American Federation of Labor, returned to the U. S. fresh from a romp in Mexico, where he had been supporting Radical General Plutarco Calles for the Mexican Presidency, and whence have emanated shrieks of protest from Conservative supporters of General Adolfo de la Huerta...
Gloria Caruso, three-year-old daughter of the late tenor: " I am summering at Deauville. A despatch said that I ' romp around in a little one-piece bathing suit, just like the big girls...
...office boy, the man who has cured his back; the dawning affection for the Doctor on the part of his wife; the awe and fear, almost, with which they both regard him, are set forth in the second act. We have the light laughter of the pair as they romp upstairs contrasted sharply with their mouse-like timidity whenever they are where they are likely to meet the Doctor. Again a good curtain is afforded, when the Doctor for the first time emiles at Peter and pats his hand...
...ever objected to the length of the day, and curiously enough no reformers have ever proposed a substitute for the seven-day week; but schemes to reduce the three hundred and sixty-five and one quarter days, which this giddy globe still takes for his annual romp around the sun, to some common denominator of weeks and months have flourished since man first matched the water-clock against the sun-dial. The present system calls for thirteen months of twenty-eight days each, a New Year's Day without date, the week to begin on Monday, and would cause...
...initial contest with Swarthmore on October 1 resulted in a 21-7 victory for the Jungleers. In spite of the large score however, the showing of the team was not impressive. Although there were spots of great individual brilliance such as a 40 yard run by Garrity and a romp by Lourie that covered 55 yards for a touchdown. The attack lacked coordination and a hard charge, the gains being due to a few long runs rather than to any concerted offensive...