Word: romps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Steps Out (Columbia) is a Central European romp in which Soprano Grace Moore sings six songs from an old Fritz Kreisler operetta called Cissy. One of the songs, Madly in Love, became more celebrated than it deserved when Miss Moore, who sang it in peasant garb while milking a cow, flounced off the Columbia lot vowing never to return. Said she: "I don't mind milking a cow or two in the course of a day, but also to sing all day is something else again. I have another public besides that one out in Hollywood...
...initial victory was ever the Northeastern Freshmen who were licked 26-7 in a Harvard romp. Today, however, the going will be heavier. Holy Cross has a reputation for sending out teams that can be counted on to provide an hour's work for any Harvard eleven...
Playfair should romp home in the 3000 meter without much trouble. In his last race the Tri Meet at the Boston Garden--he finished a full half-lap ahead of his nearest opponent...
...Miami, the stadium was called the Orange Bowl. Five thousand spectators in white flannels and beach clothes watched Bucknell, bothered by sore feet and colds in the head, romp through the University of Miami...
Next day Australian editors pointed out that Melbourne moppets do not romp in the middle of the night; that at 1 a. m., Australian time, there may be moonbathing but not sunbathing on Bondi Beach. After denouncing the obvious fake (apparently achieved by playing phonograph records in London), Australian papers indicated, characteristically, that they might have been prepared to forgive all had not the description of Bondi the Beautiful, the Pearl of Australia, been so "unspeakably puerile...