Word: mischiefism
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Like the spiteful dwarf or pixie in a fairy tale, the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden made all sorts of mischief, last week, in the House of Commons. He may even have lost (or, by a strange paradox, won) the coming General Election for his party (Laborite). Insulting Frenchmen, roiling Italians, vexing U. S. statesmen and bringing tears to the eyes of His Majesty's Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, were a few of the pixie's mischiefs. Mentally Mr. Snowden is honest, alert, fearless. Long years of suffering from a spinal affliction have warped him physically, reduced...
...Mischief...
...East View Penitentiary, East View, N. Y., last week arrived Hugh Finn, 55, to begin a six-months' sentence after his 49th conviction. Convict Finn, no minatory criminal, has served sentences only for minor offenses like malicious mischief, petit larceny, abusive language, disorderly conduct...
Soon Harry was talking of Hollywood and when he heard that Joan Crawford was a favorite at Harvard he said, "Joan is a wonderful girl, and she's never caused me any trouble. In fact, the only mischief she ever does is when I'm acting. Then she stands arounds and laughs so hard that the whole work is broken up and we have to take the scene over...
Outside his door newsgatherers stood ankle-deep in slushy snow, their collars turned against a winter wind zipping up the S Street hill. Moved by pity and mischief, Congressman Black of New York offered in the House a resolution to appropriate $5,000 to build the newsmen a temporary shelter...