Word: mischiefism
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Looking like Peck's bad boy, Venezuelan General Nogales stands in full Turkish uniform in the frontispiece of his book to give readers a foretaste of mischief to come. It comes: should the supply run short in one hemisphere there is bound to be plenty in the other. The doughty general craves trouble as a cat craves fish, can nose it from afar. Do or die is no mere shibboleth to him, but sober truth. "For certain men not to do is to die, to die a spiritual and very disagreeable death. From such a death I have been...
Like many another child, Peggy Ann Hoover, the President's granddaughter, has been frightened by big bad bear stories.* White House attendants, to keep her out of mischief, told her that a fierce black one lived in the basement of the Executive Offices. Peggy Ann became curious about bears, so, fortnight ago. President Hoover took her and her small brother Herbert III ("Peter"') to see some live ones at Washington's zoo. Most persons read the resultant news stories with pleasant amusement. But in Chairman John M. Holzworth of the National Committee on Protection and Preservation...
Assembly should vote to expel the Jesuits and do Mother Church more mischief...
Safety Valves. To keep superpatriotic students out of mischief, Nanking President Chiang Kai-shek organized "student battalions" last week, ostensibly for war with Japan. But numerous students were too canny to join, doubted the President's will to war. Three thousand students, most of them with little or no money, massed in Nanking, vowed that they would stay there (and perhaps starve) until the Government takes steps to avenge "China's honor...
...part of the Hoover legend is his love of children. Last week he sadly recited the above figures to his convention. Yet he was optimistic. "That we be not discouraged let us bear in mind that there are 35,000,000 reasonably normal, cheerful human electrons radiating joy and mischief and hope and faith. Their faces are turned toward the light-theirs is the life of great adventure...