Word: mischiefism
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...messages, messengers; she talked to him. reasoned with him, finally took to visiting him every day and reading aloud from heart-softening philosophical books. Chivalrous Mr. Ganson stood it quite a long time, then went to John and asked him to call Nina off. But by that time the mischief was done: heartless Mr. Ganson had fallen in love with her. When Nina discovered how much too well she had succeeded, she wept, cheered up. went away, leaving John, Mr. Ganson and Dorchester repining...
...odor in 24 hr., all of it in two or three days. Racketeering bombers were keeping them busy at the rate of a dozen or two bombings a week. More & more manufacturers were seeking their services. Lloyd's of London recommended them to clients insured against malicious mischief...
...proposed "conditional surrender." Their terms were relayed to land stations in Netherlands India, thence to Her Majesty's Government 9,000 miles distant at The Hague. Evidently scared, the mutineers asked no more than amnesty, with the implied threat that if this were not granted they might do mischief to the eight Dutch junior officers in their power. Bold as a lion at The Hague, fiery Dutch Defense Minister Deckers held out for unconditional surrender...
...General von Blomberg, never before in politics, a crony of President von Hindenburg, who can be trusted to keep the Army out of Hitler mischief...
...LIFE GOES ON-Vicki Baum- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). BLACK MISCHIEF-Evelyn Waugh- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). BRAVE NEW WORLD-Aldous Huxley- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). BRIGHT SKIN-Julia Peterkin-Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). FARAWAY - J. B. Priestley - Harper ($2-75). FLOWERING WILDERNESS-John Galsworthy-Scribner ($2.50). THE FOUNTAIN-Charles Morgan- Knopf ($2.50). GOD'S ANGRY MAN-Leonard Ehrlich -Simon & Schuster ($2.50). GREENBANKS-Dorothy Whipple-Far-rar & Rinehart ($2.50). INHERITANCE-Phyllis Bentley-Mac-millan ($2.50). INVITATION TO THE WALTZ-Rosamond Lehmann-Holt ($2). THE LADY OF THE BOAT - Lady Murasaki-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). LIGHT IN AUGUST-William Faulkner -Smith & Haas ($2.50). LIMITS & RENEWALS...