Word: mischiefism
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Hearst's Journal-American poured huge black headlines on Poletti. Out came Hoffman's record of arrests: felonious assault, 1929; assault, 1931; felonious assault, 1932; malicious mischief (planting "stink bombs"), 1937. The tabloid Daily News, strongly anti-New Deal, swung from the floor with a double-truck haymaker, telling how Hoffman, in 1940, was convicted for trying to start a fire in a non-union cleaning & dyeing plant by sending clothes in which had been hidden incendiary phosphorous pellets coated with paraffin (which would melt when heated during the cleaning process...
Janie (by Josephine Bentham & Herschel Williams; produced by Brock Pemberton) tells of a new Junior Miss up to new junior mischief. It tells it in terms of the present, when small towns lie chockablock with army camps, and harum-scarum, boy-crazy young things, talking weird slang in whiny voices, give high-school seniors the go-by and dashing privates the come-on. One night, while her parents are out, Janie (Gwen Anderson) throws a small party for the military, which by midnight achieves riotous and regimental proportions. Coca-Cola gives way to Scotch, soldiers get locked in bathrooms, jeeps...
...enjoying their annual festival of music by the great Johann Sebastian Bach. Climax of the festival was to have been the unveiling in Carmel's city park of Sculptor Bufano's 14-ft. cylindrical steel and granite statue of Bach. Two nights before the scheduled unveiling, muscular mischief-makers tipped the statue off its wooden perch, stole its 200-lb. blue granite head. Some Carmelites observed that the statue had looked more like Bufano than Bach anyhow. But Mayor Keith Evans was hopping mad. Said he: "It's an act of vandalism that would go over...
Encouraged by Army morale officers because they thought painting might keep them out of mischief, artists in the armed forces were sketching away at odd moments long before Pearl Harbor. But this year the War Department's Office of Special Service has discovered that U.S. fighting men take a new pride in their humdrum daily tasks when they see them selves and their work immortalized on barrack-room canvases, mess-hall murals. Today, many big U.S. Army camps have their own art classes, and art workshops and army art have become the province of a special office in Washington...
...mischief-making despot fills the house with Chinese, penguins, an octopus, a mummy case, etc. He informs his nurse that she "has the touch of a love-starved cobra" regards his physician as the "greatest living argument for mercy killing"; warns his favorite wayward actress (Ann Sheridan), who arrives to pay her respects, not to "try to pull the bedclothes over my eyes"; dismisses his secretary as a "flea-bitten Cleopatra...