Word: mischiefism
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...would simply drive the monkeys to the fields of neighbors not rich enough to have electric lights. Then he amazed his followers, who believe it sacrilege to kill a monkey (sacred to the Hindu monkey-god Hanuman), with "if we must save society as well as ourselves from the mischief of monkeys and the like, we have to kill them...
That gave George Grim, Morning Tribune columnist and oldtime radio actor, an idea: why not keep idle little hands out of mischief with a radio show? Two Minneapolis college stations hopped to it, gave a daily, five-to-six-hour broadcast of games, stories, circus music and the like; then all six Minneapolis commercial stations joined in. As each came to an end of its show, it told moppets to turn to a rival station for more Fun at Home...
...assistant at six, he never had a day's formal education, believed firmly in marriage (when remarrying at 72 he explained: "I've had three wives and they were all jolly good ones"), once averred that a sensible Frau could keep even Hitler out of mischief...
...husband (Cornel Wilde) leads her to drown his brother, throw herself downstairs, and eventually poison her own coffee. The unhappy story moves through breathtakingly stylish country interiors which make no particular point except to show that the characters have plenty of chintz-upholstered leisure for getting into mischief...
...know, when people have a lot of time on their hands, they don't know what to do, and they make mischief." The practical Chinese looked upon the displaced Japanese with practical cynicism: they would keep the indispensables as busy as possible and pack off the idle as soon as possible...