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Word: romps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little use to ask the Wellesleyite why she chosen to romp these fertile pastures. An administrative poll conducted last fall showed that a majority chose Wellesley for its high academic standing, while less than one percent sited the proximity to Harvard and M.I.T. A high administrative, official, however, shrugs and says, "I'm, not so naive as to consider this completely accurate." The high administrative official is undoubtedly right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley: the Girl Behind the Teapot | 5/12/1951 | See Source »

...women of comparatively easy virtue to whom he was unfailingly kind and, when he had money, generous. One sued him; another just missed him with a knife; still another married him, or at least they lived together as man & wife. Cora Taylor was devoted to him, but only a romp with his tiny nieces ever brought a smile to the face of Stephen Crane. His life had a kind of luckless ill grace as if he had been selected fate's prize guinea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man in Search of a Hero | 12/25/1950 | See Source »

...smoking alligator named Albert; Porky Pine, a gloomy realist; Churchy LaFemme, a turtle and a reformed pirate captain; Rowland Owl, a nearsighted, pseudo-scientist who once tried to invent an "Adam Bomb"; a prideful hound named Beauregard Bugleboy; and a fantastic menagerie of feathered, furry swamp characters. Together they romp and fuss, conversing in a vaguely Southern dialect that drips with puns and nonsense verse: "Oh, the parsnips were snipping their snappers/ While the parsley was parceling the peas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Possum Time | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

After an early Springfield touchdown, the score changed hands three times in the second period. Tsavaris broke through a wide hole at guard for a 31-yard scoring romp and Bob Kendall rushed the point. After Degutis first touchdown, throw, Kierstead took the ball to the 20 on a bootleg, and Kendall ran it over, with Tsavaris carrying for the point. Degutis got away his other long heave in the third quarter, and Howe clinched it in the final period with two long runs and a short rush, all through the line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fast Backs Aid Springfield In 26-14 Win Over Jayvees | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...even their own material deserts them, and little else is ever on their side. Jack Albertson has an engagingly easy manner; and Roger Price, a recurrent monologuist with a sketchbook, says some funny things, but by no means often enough. For the rest, a number of colorless young people romp around in various wobbly sketches and sing some tormentingly vapid love songs. Since the Hartmans are the whole show, it's too bad they aren...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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