Playgroundful

In addition to a long list of radio-phonographs and records, projector, piano, folding chairs for meetings, bulletin boards, a cello for the orchestra, typewriter and mimeograph, card catalogues and files, 17 trees for the grounds, bookshelves and books, there’s a whole playgroundful of sports equipment donated.

The new experience involves a lot of preparation … new clothes, a physical examination, learning how to get to school plus the adjustment to taking or buying one’s lunch, getting to know a teacher and playing new games with a playgroundful of children.

By late afternoon a whole playground-ful of items had been auctioned off, including four collie pups, an old piano, toys, baby cribs, farm machinery, straw, beans, and even an armload of “Hula Hoops.”

There’s a spark of humor in a playgroundful of boys and girls flying kites.

But undoubtedly a whale beached incongruously on a clearance site in a mildly tough area of Liverpool, between boozer and bookie, tatty pawnshop and towering council flats.[…]There was a good playgroundful of kids, lapping round the long-suffering leviathan in cursing currents as the word spread that you could get in- or on, or under it at the other end, losing interest as they were shooed off and finding fresh attractions in sliding down the roof of an adjacent school or breaking whisky bottles in front of passing cars.

Outside a blue jay’s ragged discussion with himself answered what sounded like a distant playgroundful of children merrily slaughtering each other at recess.

Extra big 6-legged gym set keeps a home playground-ful of happy children.

The people who moved out of the house next door bequeathed him a playgroundful of equipment—slide, swings, seesaw, jungle gym—for the grandchildren.