Word: romps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...misers here suffer none of the crushing caricature of Moliere's L'Avare, written a century earlier. Gretry's characters romp through their villanies like a couple of school-children. In the end the misers' greed is duly admonished and their young wards are awarded their rightful inheritances and are allowed to marry...
Like any grandfather, Dwight Eisenhower enjoys a romp with his grandchildren. But shortly after the three Eisenhower grandchildren arrived at the White House last week, the President was told to keep his distance: White House Physician Howard Snyder had detected a slight cold, and he warned Ike not to infect the kids. Despite the cold, the President kept steadily at his heavy schedule, and another ailment-a "slightly sprained" wrist-did not prevent him from a quick round of golf at Burning Tree Country Club...
...curtain parted on Rossini's frisky operatic romp, An Italian Lady in Algiers, and the crowd saw Coloratura Dobbs, cast as the dusky charmer Elvira, in stage center, surrounded by sumptuously costumed Algerian nobles. Her part had no arias, but her bright, sure voice led sweetly and gracefully a series of swiftly paced quartets, quintets and sextets. When it was all over, she got a round of warmhearted applause that was echoed next day by the press...
MADEMOISELLE casts Leslie Caron as a French governess whose twelve-year-old ward dreams he has grown up and become handsome Farley Granger. Neatly directed by Vincente Minnelli, this romantic romp toys amusingly with its subject...
Rancho Dobe's Storm is a sleek, husky (92 Ibs.) Doberman pinscher who leads a pampered dog's life in suburban Cos Cob, Conn. (pop. 3,100). His nonworking day's routine includes an egg at breakfast, a pound of canned beef at dinner, a romp on the acres of his master, Adman Len Carey, a vice president of Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, and a proprietary interest in sleeping on the bed of the Careys' 16-year-old son, Jeff. Every once in a while, for reasons that Storm may not fully understand, he is required...