Word: horseplayer
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Synge has overlaid his peasants' horseplay with his own warm Irish humor. He has taken the pungent speech in which they let themselves go, has both slyly overdresssed it and poetically beautified it, and given it matchless rhythm. The Playboy is something to hear even more than...
...spokesman for the group declared that the dean has so far declined to give the permission usually allowed such activities for fear of "horseplay by unsympathetic groups" such as marked a Liberal Union demonstration last March
...were no fist fights in the lobby, no naked women running through the corridors, no drunks hell-raising in the streets. Delegates to the first convention of the American Veterans Committee, lustiest & loudest of the scores of burgeoning World War II-born veterans' groups, were too busy for horseplay...
There are rides on plaster elephants, Hindu immolation ceremonies, Chinese opium hells, Japanese circuses, storms at sea, pistol shots, gas explosions, collapsing railway bridges, Indian raids, eagles swooping down on human prey. It's pretty fast & furious horseplay, but not quite enough...
...Paul's School, in New Hampshire, he captained the hockey team, excelled in scholarship, debate and occasional horseplay. At Yale, he developed these talents, added new ones, worried mightily over the nation. He was graduated summa cum laude, just in time...