Word: mischiefism
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...trying to depress world automobile prices into President Herbert Hoover's head he could not order Fords and Chevrolets sold at $100 apiece. But Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin can do things remarkably like that. To understand this, to gauge the potential power of Red statesmen to work mischief in world markets, was more vital last week than to be scared by lurid rumors of Red grain dumping in Liverpool and Amsterdam, Red speculating for the decline in Chicago's wheat...
...enraged. The dog was Sunnybank Jean, 10-yr.-old "heroine" of books and articles from which Terhune's royalties have exceeded $9,000, he said. He took the whole Norris family to the police station. Before the village justice he swore out a complaint of malicious mischief against them. When Mr. Norris paid him $100, he withdrew the complaint, allowed them to go back home to Detroit. Author Terhune turned the money over to the Pompton Lakes policeman & fireman's fund. "It was all very messy," said...
...picture of the mother of the Gracchi surrounded by her natural jewels, may be amused by the idea that the younger generation is any longer a practical object for the world's concern, Mr. Macy will find few male enemies by his treatment of woman as trouble and mischief-maker. Quoting, and later characterizing as "smart-aleck," Max Beerbohm's description of the militant suffragettes as the "army of the unenjoyed," he finds behind the W. C. T. U. and similar organizations the unconscious desire to ruin man's pleasure be it good or bad. The godliness of trouble-making...
...extended his "protective influence" to the building trades and plumbing unions. Newsmen at police headquarters were advised to "lay off Al," on the theory that so much publicity on Capone's comings and goings hampered the police in their efforts to keep him "out of mischief...
...Mischief In Grantwood, N. J., Mrs. Carlo Ramondo went to court to get her son Carlo Ramondo Jr., eleven, who had been arrested while up to some mischief. On her return with her mischievous son, Mrs. Ramondo encountered an ambulance carrying her daughter Angelina Ramondo. seven, who had just been shot by her brother Joseph Ramondo...