Word: cavorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...perfect artist--highly emotional, moody, egoistical, but a boy at heart. Ruth Weston plays Mrs. Nordoff with such charm and mature talent that she runs off with the play. Glenn Anders is given all too little to do, but succeeds in playing a manager who doesn't cavort about with the extravagant boisterousness we have been forced to suffer from the run of managers, performing the role of Nordoff's manager and man Friday with quiet charm which is a grand relief from the extravagant boisterousness which most players lend to such a part...
Over 100 U. S. vaudeville performers have been booked by Gomez, the Soviet State entertainment trust, to cavort, tapdance, tumble and blow rubber razzberries in Russia this summer. Last week the U. S. State Department called attention to the plight in Moscow of "The Mangean Four Troupe," a hardy U. S. team who have barnstormed around Europe for some two years under the management of shrewd, brassy Hazel Mangean...
...Kirstein School presented Alma Mater, a rip-roaring burlesque for which Edward Warburg wrote the scenario and Kay Swift, his comely cousin-by-marriage, the music.* Harvardman Warburg picked Yale as the scene for his collegiate horseplay. Against a backdrop depicting Portal 6 ?A of the Yale Bowl cavort John Held Jr. characters in John Held Jr. costumes. Girls appear in short leopard-skin jackets, decorated with chrysanthemums and blue satin ribbons, while Kay Swift's music blends bits of "Boola-Boola" with off-stage cheers...
...itch for gay trappings threatens to take more starting form. Blazers are just over the horizon: and once these receive the blessing. Joseph's coat of many colors will indeed become fruitful and infinitely multiply. Heraldie rabbita will cavort on Levereff pajamas; tennis shoes will be tricked out in tri-color; and at length an Eliot man will wear from tip to too the azure and red that proclaim him every inch an elephant...
...piled in neat little stacks. At a given signal the freshman class rushes out and sets are to each and every little stack-- provided, of course, the campus cops lack the necessary strength or vigilance. Then, true to Stanford's symbol, the In- dian, all freshmen cavort merrily around the fires. In the end, the entire class faces an assessment, which is always paid without a murmur. It's just another tradition...