Word: mischiefism
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Like many another big and busy man, President Hoover last week began a ten-day winter vacation. The Senate was poking along on the Tariff. The House with its robot membership could not conceivably get into mischief. The well-reefed London Naval Conference sailed cautiously over well-charted seas of diplomacy. Therefore the President packed a trunkfull of fishing tackle, stuffed a few papers in a small brief case, ordered a private car tacked on the end of the Atlantic Coast Line's Havana Special, and, with Mrs. Hoover, departed for Florida. His guests: Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone...
...When Professor Willis predicted another earthquake for Southern California the Los Angeles Graphic (society weekly) excited by a rival geologist, Robert Thomas Hill, assailed the prediction as "the incondite ravings of a mischief maker . . . God must have tipped him off." (TIME...
Physical therapy comprises the use of physical, chemical and other properties of heat, light, water, electricity, massage and exercise. Until after the War U. S. doctors left those useful means of treatment largely to quacks who did so much ignorant mischief that the regular practitioners were obliged to form the American College of Physical Therapy. Last week the College met in Chicago...
Happy Valley, Tenn., was full of new trouble last week. Ten thousand idle hands itched with mischief. Strikers from the American Bemberg and Glantzoff artificial silk factories at Elizabethton, Tenn., felt the prick of National Guard bayonets...
...Adventures of Maya (German). U. S. folk of all sizes and ages will go many times to see how the blunt bee survived the perfidy of the green spider and the mischief of hornets to bring the message of battle to his drowsy queen. This picture took six years to make and is a coherent, exciting story in which all the actors and actresses are insects. Best shot: the warring swarms among looted honeycombs...