Word: mischiefism
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...jacket, from the left pocket of which protrudes a notebook. The face under the hat takes daylight as though it and the light and air are friends. Hazel eyes, which now seem abstracted, can, in the closer proximity of a room, . pierce disconcertingly or brim with laughter or mischief like a child's. The nose is strong, the mouth full and sensual, the chin arrogant. The ears are large and seemingly tense with listening; they belong to a man who is a born eavesdropper of human speech, machinery or a dissolving sliver of birdsong. On rainy days his slim...
Most of Sam's family were "abandoned Presbyterians," and so church was also available as a place for mischief. Once Sam and a friend were almost caught playing euchre in the parish house. In desperation they stuffed the pack into the sleeves of the preacher's "baptising robe." Next time the preacher was immersing converts, the cards slid out of his sleeve one by one, and floated serenely down the river, "the first cards being a couple of bowers and three aces." Caught and flogged, Sam (or maybe it was the friend) sobbed through his tears...
...showing was brilliant enough (by Kremlin standards) to make him heir presumptive to Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, whose health is none too good. In sending him to London instead of Washington, and in sending a nonentity to Washington, the Russians are plainly saying that they expect to accomplish more mischief in Britain than in the U.S. What mischief? Driving a wedge between the U.S. and Britain. Along with the diplomatic switch last week, both Pravda and Izvestia began playing up stories of "intensified Anglo-American contradictions." Andrei Gromyko presumably goes to London to hold the wedge for the Kremlin...
...Berlin inch by inch, in such a way that the West would have a hard time finding the crucial point to make a stand. At any rate, beneath the bluster, there was a canny control at work too-as if the Russians hoped to achieve the maximum of mischief short...
...recorded most of the Beethoven sonatas in the past (for Polydor), but the Decca disks are new and marked by lustrous tone and silent surfaces. Kempff plays with splendid seriousness in the diabolical Hammerklavier, delivers such lighter sonatas as Op. 2, No. 3 with a hint of mischief. Twelve of his performances have been released on six LPs; the rest will be out next month...