Word: mischief
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mischief...
Soon Harry was talking of Hollywood and when he heard that Joan Crawford was a favorite at Harvard he said, "Joan is a wonderful girl, and she's never caused me any trouble. In fact, the only mischief she ever does is when I'm acting. Then she stands arounds and laughs so hard that the whole work is broken up and we have to take the scene over...
Outside his door newsgatherers stood ankle-deep in slushy snow, their collars turned against a winter wind zipping up the S Street hill. Moved by pity and mischief, Congressman Black of New York offered in the House a resolution to appropriate $5,000 to build the newsmen a temporary shelter...
...never will be, and hence it is damned. The kernel of it all is that the blue print of the mental underworld which it submits to our attention is so compromising to us all that at bottom we recoil. Psychopathology is, like "un bon petit diable", always up to mischief, and hence may be counted upon to infuriate the disciplined thinker on the one hand and the hundred percenter on the other...
...lived to the prodigious age of 81-a year longer than Victoria herself. Surely the great Queen would have approved the language in which last week, the Victorian physicians of George V bulletined the approach to crisis thus: There is a slight extension of the mischief in the lung...