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But, thanks to the enterprising Green Room Club of Lancaster's Franklin and Marshall College, the town is not left playless.

From Time Magazine Archive

After forty-five years of the playless life of a serf to blighting seriousness, the wonder is that sourness had not entered to hopelessly curdle all chances for joyous living.

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.

We need but to trace back the history of the dull and brutish men of today, and find that they were the playless children of yesterday.

From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert

We need but follow the children, who have had a playless childhood, into a narrow and barren manhood.

From The Mind and Its Education by Betts, George Herbert

Odd little, silent creatures the children were, white-faced and white-haired, playless and grave, laboring like their elders even from the age of five or six.

From Darkness and Dawn by England, George Allan