Word: mischiefism
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Perhaps catching on to democratic ways, Germans began to gripe-at Allied "inefficiency," at the coming Nurnberg trials of big war criminals. Thousands of unemployed men had ample time for mischief. Here & there, snipers were still active. At night, G.I.s found wires strung across highways, intended to decapitate motorcyclists. U.S. Army cars were looted. German girls suspected of fraternizing were waylaid and warned...
This collection of innuendoes and untruths was hardly on the streets before mischief-mongering O'Donnell found himself caught, for once. The soldier Patton had slapped, Charles H. Kuhl, was not Jewish but of German descent. All of the Jewish leaders except Justice Frankfurter (who follows the court custom of ignoring press comment) issued denials...
Beginning with a middle-aged matron and a bit of perplexing gossip, The Deep Mrs. Sykes ends by revealing the key dislocations in half a dozen lives. For all her inscrutable airs and vaunted "intuitions," Carrie Sykes (Catherine Willard) is just a stupid mischief-maker and egoist. When a woman in her cups spills the story that someone has been anonymously sending flowers to a neighborhood bride, Carrie suspects her own husband (Neil Hamilton), but lets the intoxicated woman-who goes haywire with jealousy-imagine it is hers. Actually it is Mrs. Sykes's married son-and gradually there...
Whether Mrs. Roosevelt meant more than she said or said more than she meant was not quite clear to anyone but the New York Daily News's mischief-mongering Columnist John O'Donnell, whose apparent mission in life is to make anti-Roosevelt mountains out of any molehill he can stumble on. With characteristically unpleasant glee he commented: "For the first time in the history of the Republic, the First Lady . . . has proclaimed publicly from the Executive Mansion that she favors birth control-at least for the lower classes. . . . A White House smash punch directed at the Catholic...
...which shot circulation up, reduced the size of his papers, and brought him all the advertising his papers could carry. Besides sharing the general prosperity, Hearst has untangled himself from as complicated, a cat's cradle of corporate ties as ever kept a law firm out of mischief...