Word: mischief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been bought by 55 papers, was barely distinguishable from her running chronicle of domestic woe. She went to Russia, said Landers Fan Fanning, "to find out what the hell people are up to." What people are up to in Moscow, according to Dear Ann, is the same old mischief and misery that fills the capitalist press's lovelorn columns...
...loose tongue, intemperate, trusting to tumult, leading the populace to mischief with empty words." That is how Euripides described the typical demagogue, and that is also how Reporter Richard Rovere sees the subject of his biography. Yet it is a measure of McCarthy's defeat that, only two years after his death, it takes an effort of the imagination to recall the shifty but haunted eyes, the spurious rhetoric, the rasping voice ("Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman! Point of order!") that could not be halted by the gavel of reason. The allusion to Euripides should not keep one from remembering...
...incorruptible self of Cabiria gleams out from her bought and sold body just as her eyes peer vivacious and warm through the painted expression of her face. Her eyes speak childish mischief to a man, even though he infers it to be winking lewdness...
...case histories, Dr. Jordan found that 55% had no ulcer or other organic cause of illness. Instead, their digestive tracts were rebelling against their owners' abuse-with hastily wolfed meals, rich and heavily spiced foods, often washed down with alcohol and-cured in tobacco smoke. Many compounded the mischief by harmful self-medication, especially with laxatives. For these, as well as for the follow-up care of the more serious cases with active ulcers (which might require surgery or at least a couple of weeks in the hospital), Dr. Jordan laid down a series of rules which have become...
...foot plate-glass window and right into the side of a shiny black $6,000 Lincoln Continental. Damages: $2,300 to the building and the Continental, $1,000 to the Chevy, a cut lip for Mrs. Norman. The enraged company manager signed a complaint charging Mrs. Norman with malicious mischief. She posted $400 bail, airily said Metro could "go ahead, sue, I'm broke," and went back to work. First contributors to a Norman legal-defense fund: a group of anonymous "auto salesmen" who sent $15, hoped it would help Mrs. Norman "in your problems with a certain automobile...