Word: romps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter as a nucleus, they started an ultra-progressive school on an isolated woodland in Hampshire 60 mi. from London. The school, now run entirely by Dora Russell, has about 22 pupils, aged 2 to 18. The youngsters study when and what they please. Weather permitting, they romp stark naked. They may say anything they like, get honest answers to any question. They are never coerced, never punished...
According to the coaches, the Harvard team compared favorably with last year's outfit, which eked out a 6-6 tie with the Exeter team. Though this year's team is slightly heavier than last, it lacks the experience which enabled its predecessor to romp through Yale and Dartmouth...
...came more and more into the limelight as the Yale game approached. In practice this season Haley has done a steady job, while Litman was off his game at the start, but swung into brilliant form three days ago and ended up with a 65-yard romp through the Jayvees...
Surveying his Vassar domain, Henry Noble MacCracken, 53, can say: "Under favorable conditions and proper guidance we have found the American student to be characterized by self-control, reliability, persistence and tolerance." His tolerant charges in turn watch him play tennis with freshmen, dance with sophomores, romp in the annual costume baseball game between students & faculty, dress up to take the part of an ancient Greek citizen or Hindu prince in a college play-and find him pre-eminently worthy of respect, admiration, affection...
...devotional exercises, interspersed with a rollicking theme hymn called "Happy Am I," have become familiar to many a U. S. radio listener during the past year. Broadcast from Washington over the CBS network every Saturday night, the Church of God of Elder Solomon Lightfoot Michaux is a lively Negro romp, noisy and syncopated as some white folks believe all black worship should be. Last week for the first time Elder Michaux took his choir of 40 and his jazz orchestra of ten out of Washington to capitalize their fame. For his first appearance he chose stolid Philadelphia...