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Word: romps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Destry Rides Again is charged with enough buckaroo comedy* and sheer animal spirits to keep cinemaudiences chortling even when there is nothing to laugh at, makes even the widely advertised Dietrich v. Merkel hair-pulling match (the closest the picture comes to being vulgar) seem just a romp. As entertainment, Producer Pasternak's western, with hardly more pretensions than a cow town, is likely to be voted best of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 18, 1939 | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Pins and Needles (music & lyrics by Harold J. Rome; produced by Labor Stage, Inc.). Two years ago this week Pins and Needles opened, almost clandestinely, on Broadway. The basters and but-tonholemakers of David Dubinsky's I.L.G.W.U. were merely out for a romp; they ended by setting a record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Army gridiron squad arrived in Boston at 9:30 o'clock and was immediately hustled off to the Somerset Hotel. The Cadets are slated to come to the Stadium today at 2:30 o'clock for a short workout. Dick Harlow's boys will romp about in the Stadium at about 3:45 o'clock...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Fran Lee and Gene Lovett Probable Starters Against Soldiers Tomorrow | 11/10/1939 | See Source »

Macdonald is a certain starter against the Quakers on Saturday, and he will probably be ready for contact work tomorrow. The only casualties in the point-a-minute Chicago romp were three minor charley horses for Charley Spreyer, Frannie Lee, and Chub Peabody. All three will be ready for action by tomorrow. Ernie Sargeant, another reported casualty, was back in his regular first-string guard spot yesterday...

Author: By Donald Peddie, | Title: GRIDMEN DRILL FOR TILT WITH QUAKERS | 10/17/1939 | See Source »

Triple threat Torbie Macdonald was almost the whole show Saturday morning as he led the Varsity A team to a five touchdown romp over the B team in the season's first game scrimmage at Soldiers Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRIDDERS STAGE FIRST REAL GAME SCRIMMAGE | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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