Word: knavishness
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...documents stolen from the U. S. Department of State and discovered in the custody of the Mexican Government. These documents were particularly annoying inasmuch as they contained many unpleasant reflections on the Mexican Government, but their most sensational passages were later found to be forgeries, interpolated by the same knavish hand which first had stolen them...
They were not the sort of knavish sprites that frighten housewives, pinch old men sleeping, and mislead night-wanderers. No, they were kindly imps. "Every one of the Brownies does good," once said Palmer Cox, "without any thought of reward. Every one of my Brownie books is packed with morals, but I don't think that the children who read them have the least idea that they're there." If the children had, the Brownie books might not have become as they did, standbys in every household...
Some ingenuous or else knavish freshman recently graduated from Andover, has been writing articles to the Philippians signing himself "Pilliparius" and evidently considering himself an accredited delegate to represent Harvard thought to the fellows at Andover. This eccentric individual has asserted various views as coming from Harvard against the tone of the Exonian and all Exeter besides. Naturally Exeter is up in arms at this attack and wants to know if that is the way in which Exeter is viewed by Harvard men. We would inform the students there that the presuming young man must be either some escaped lunatic...