Highspiritedness

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327. Highspiritedness

  1. Gashouse Gang boisterous Cardinals ballclub of the 1930s. [Am. Sports: Shankle, 167]
  2. Gay Nineties (Naughty Nineties ) the 1890s; the fin-de-siècle epoch when traditional Victorian religiosity was flouted. [Am. and Br. Hist.: Payton, 264]
  3. Hal, Prince led boisterous life in the company of Falstaff. [Br. Lit.: I Henry IV ]
  4. Nickleby, Nicholas adventurous student facing adversities of life. [Br. Lit.: Nicholas Nickleby ]
  5. Roaring Twenties decade of exuberance (1920s). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 309]

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