Word: mischiefism
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Civil affairs administrators at first had found it impossible to pay any wages at all to native laborers. With no goods available, any money in native hands became mischief money, that was traded to soldiers for Government equipment. To prevent this, all wages were withheld for two months, until trade goods could be shipped...
Down from London dashed Professor Harry Price, head of the Council of Psychical Investigation. The professor puttered about the violated grave, diagnosed the mischief-maker as a poltergeist-at-large, whose headstone must be restored exactly as before. He warned: "Its orientation north to south must be precise...
...Mischief-makers and fanatics cried that it was not so in the past, before the French came to rule, when Islam's mothers and daughters lived dutifully within their walled courtyards. Everywhere in the ancient capital jealous men gathered and listened. Then angry groups marched down the Street Called Straight, surged by the ass and spice markets, the tombs of Saladin and Fatima, the places where Ananias lived and St. Paul dropped down the wall in a basket. They bore rifles, revolvers, axes, sticks & stones...
...folklore. The folklore Umbriago is a friendly, lusty, happy little man who is always the life of the party, and Jimmy is sure he knows what he looks like (see cover). But in Jimmy's comedy, Umbriago may assume many shapes-clarinetist, bank president, farmer-according to whatever mischief Durante is up to. Umbriago is also at war. One U.S. Army paratroop division has abandoned the classic paratrooper cry Geronimo! in favor of Umbriago...
Thus the British and Dutch rubber producers took a more realistic position. They fear U.S. synthetic rubber production, and its possible tariff protection in the postwar era, more than the mischief of the Japs on their conquered plantations...